Maputo is about to launch work on an integrated public transport that will give the metropolitan area’s poor neighbourhoods access to opportunities in the commercial hub for the first time.
Advocates say a planned pipeline network encompassing seven Central African states could revolutionise energy access, but there are questions over funding, refining capacity and the environment.
As the next UN climate conference approaches, African countries are playing their role in combating climate change, but industrialised countries must make good on their funding pledges.
The deal for the Nigeria-based firm is a significant acquisition for Shell, which has long been active in the continent’s hydrocarbons market but must look for new sources of growth as fossil fuels are phased out.
The former Director-General of the World Trade Organisation says that Africa must adopt united positions on finance and the energy transition if it is to succeed at Cop27 in Egypt.
Even a year on, committees are still thrashing out what Nigeria's Petroleum Industry Act means in practice, but evidence indicates that things may be changing for the better.
A group of investigative journalists have exposed the commercial activities of Russian mercenary group Wagner in the Central African Republic, where they say it has received vast concessions of tropical rainforest.
The opening of the Dangote Refinery and rehabilitation of state-owned refineries may allow Nigeria to end reliance on imported fuel, but missed deadlines and oil theft mean that the process is unlikely to be simple.
