Electricity Vital for Production

Botswana Daily News

Assistant Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry, Mr Molebatsi Molebatsi says government through ministry of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security should… Read more »

Mozambique Plans Sovereign Wealth Fund From Gas Bonanza - What Could Go Wrong? [analysis]

Daily Maverick

Mozambique's central bank has mooted investing more than half the revenue from its expected natural gas bonanza into a sovereign wealth fund. This might not be a bad move, but… Read more »

CBN Rolls Out Financing Framework for Mass Metering Programme

This Day

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday released guidelines for accessing funding for the mass metering programme recently announced by the federal government in a bid to close… Read more »

Govt Moots Power Submarine Cable to Kalangala Island

Monitor

Energy Minister Goretti Kitutu is today expected to commission the laying of a 33 kilovolt submarine cable through Lake Victoria to evacuate electricity from the mainland via… Read more »

Power Utility Revamps Ailing Fleet

The Herald

Mashonaland Central Bureau Read more »

Solar Water Pumps Bring Bright Future to Villagers

The Herald

For Ms Lostina Dube, a farmer in the Sengezane area of Gwanda South district journeying to and from a dug-out water hole, commonly known as umthombo (or mufuku) on the Sengezane… Read more »

What Peace in Cabo Delgado Means for Mozambique and Its Neighbours [analysis]

ISS

The benefits of huge liquid gas projects for Mozambique and the region are threatened by the insurgency. Read more »

How Fracking Plans Could Affect Shared Water Resources [analysis]

The Conversation Africa

Recently, news reports revealed plans by a Canadian oil and gas company, ReconAfrica, to explore for oil and gas in some of Africa's most sensitive protected areas. These areas… Read more »

What Country's Poor Power Supply Really Costs [analysis]

The Conversation Africa

Nigeria faces the triple challenge of providing reliable power supply, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and keeping energy affordable to consumers. Read more »

We Told You So!!! - Civil Society Calls On World Bank to Stop Funding the Violation of Environmental and Human Rights [press release]

groundWork

groundWork, Earthlife Africa and more than 200 supporting organisations warned the World Bank that it would fail on all counts. Medupi would destabilise Eskom and the country's… Read more »

Egypt's Keen to Reach Binding Agreement Concerning GERD

Egypt Online

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli asserted Sunday the necessity to reach a binding agreement concerning filling and operating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in order to… Read more »

Snail-Paced Implementation of Gwanda Solar Project Leaves a Lot to Be Desired

Zimbabwe Standard

Women and children - mostly girls - carry bundles on top of their heads while men either push wheelbarrows or sit inside donkey-drawn carts loaded with firewood as they pass… Read more »

CBN Releases Framework for Financing of Mass Metering

Vanguard

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released its framework for the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP). Read more »

Rocketing - Electricity Prices Up 177 Percent in a Decade - Water Costs Up 213 Percent [analysis]

Daily Maverick

The sky-high cost of electricity, water, rates and taxes drives inflation and can stamp out green shoots of economic recovery, suggests research by the SA Reserve Bank. Read more »

Science and Innovation On South Africa's Platinum Valley Project [press release]

Govt of SA

Platinum Valley project to pull SA's hydrogen initiatives into one ecosystem Read more »