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TotalEnergies and Chevron Push for Faster Permits, Better Seismic Data Across Africa
At the Africa Energy Week (AEW) 2025 conference in Cape Town, industry leaders, including those from TotalEnergies and Chevron, called for major improvements in how oil and gas exploration is managed across Africa. Their key demands centered on...

Chinese mining in West Africa: Responding to the environmental and social impacts
Issue Brief October 6, 2025 • 8:30 am ET Print this page Chinese mining in West Africa: Responding to the environmental and social impacts By Abosede Omowumi Babatunde, Richard Asante, Joseph Asunka, Joshua Eisenman, Fancies Egu Lansana, Sanusha...

UNDP: Africa’s young innovators are ready — but governments must act on AI
Maxwell Gomera, resident representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) South Africa Africa’s young innovators are not waiting for handouts, they are already creating solutions to the continent’s most pressing challenges....

Chinese demand for timber and wildlife in West Africa: Responding to the environmental and social impacts
Issue Brief October 6, 2025 • 8:30 am ET Print this page Chinese demand for timber and wildlife in West Africa: Responding to the environmental and social impacts By Ebagnerin Jérôme Tondoh, Roland Balgah, Caroline Costello, Moses Fayiah, Jean-Luc...

Alake charges African countries to use minerals for industrialisation
The Minister of Solid Minerals Development and chairman of the African Minerals Strategy Group (AMSG), Dr Dele Alake, has made a case for a bold new vision to transform Africa from a raw minerals supplier to a global hub for mineral processing,...

Anglo American's InvestFest 2025 | Building entrepreneurial resilience across Southern Africa
Anglo American’s Impact Finance Network (IFN) brought together more than 300 entrepreneurs, investors, corporates and development partners to discuss ways businesses in Southern Africa can build entrepreneurial resilience and foster collaboration...
US, China scramble for Africa as fresh battle for economic expansion begins
America’s new Africa focus On Tuesday, October 7, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee will convene a hearing pointedly titled “Combatting the People’s Republic of China’s illegal, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive behaviour in the...
Ghana to host largest exhibition of power, electrical energy and building construction in West Africa
The 4th edition of the Power, Energy and BuildExpo Ghana Exhibition, which will position Ghana as a hub in West Africa, will take place at the Accra International Conference Center from 30th October to 31st October, 2025. The exhibition will be...

Wetility to launch One Bill offering as a holistically managed total energy service
Solar technology company Wetility has provided a preview of its One Bill offering, which it describes as a comprehensive energy management system designed to increase solar adoption in South Africa. One Bill, which is officially being launched on...

The Second Coming: Can Africa’s Returning Presidents Deliver on Voters’ Hopes?
Across Africa, a political trend is quietly but steadily reshaping the leadership landscape — the return of former presidents to power. From Ghana and Malawi to the Republic of Congo and beyond, the phenomenon of “second-chance presidencies” is...

Mindware Solidifies East Africa Presence With Strategic Vendor Partnerships
Mindware has announced new strategic partnerships with global technology leaders Forcepoint, Citrix, Ubiquity, Everfox, and Eaton. These alliances expand Mindware’s East Africa footprint, enabling organisations to access cutting-edge solutions in...
Morocco Boosts Russian Oil Imports Despite Sanctions
Morocco increased its imports of Russian petroleum products in August, defying ongoing Western sanctions on Russian energy exports, according to a report from Moroccan outlet Hespress. In total, African nations imported about 994,000 tons of...

PSC extension in hand: Farm-out and drilling plans moving forward for African oil & gas block
UK-headquartered and AIM-listed oil and gas company Europa Oil & Gas has confirmed that the final details are being ironed out for an extension of a production sharing contract (PSC), covering a block off the coast of Equatorial Guinea....

Chinese clean tech creates new global energy system
As China pushes down the cost of technologies such as solar panels, wind turbines and lithium batteries, sales are soaring across Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa. “Demand for clean technologies continues to skyrocket as more countries...

Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil producer. Its citizens eye a different future.
Tasiu Umar had a problem. The power in his cellphone repair shop was constantly going out. The clanking, wheezing generators he used as a stopgap guzzled fuel and constantly broke down, gnawing into his profits. “I spent more time fixing the...

Government committed to saving South Africa’s vultures
With the severe population declines of vultures over the past three decades, government has reaffirmed its commitment to ensure that vulture conservation remains a national priority. According to the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the...
Crypto’s meteoric rise could make or break Africa
Opinion by: Ure Utah, technical advisor to Nigeria’s minister of innovation With the value of digital currencies surging close to $4 trillion, the world is rushing to cash in. While Elon Musk’s Dogecoin (DOGE) and the US president’s Official Trump...
Nigerian-American billionaire Ogunlesi eyes mega energy, aviation, port investments in Africa
Speaking to journalists after the closed-door meeting, Ogunlesi praised the sweeping policy changes under Tinubu’s administration, including the removal of subsidies, tax reforms, and the revival of a refinery that is already exporting aviation...

Dangote Refinery Applauds President Tinubu, Security Chiefs, and Ministers for Preventing Oil Workers’ Disruption
The management of Dangote Refinery has expressed deep appreciation to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, key security agencies, and top government officials for their swift intervention in resolving the industrial dispute that threatened to disrupt...

Fears of Massive Battery Fires Spark Opposition to Energy Storage Projects
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Pres More and more, big arrays of lithium-ion batteries are being hooked up to electrical grids around the U.S. to store power that can be discharged in times of high demand. But as more energy storage is added,...