The DRC is reportedly courting buyers for two oil exploration permits previously held by Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler. Could this be the start of the country’s oil bonanza?
Arab states are pushing for UN action in resolving the decade-long dispute over Ethiopia's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as Addis Ababa begins filling the dam for the second year running.
President Buhari has signed Nigeria's long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill into law. What exactly is at stake in the new Petroleum Industry Act, and will change finally be achieved?
Cyril Ramaphosa has pleased investors with new energy reforms and a long-awaited bid to part-privatise troubled South African Airways, but some critics say that selling off the airline is a mistake.
European investors have unveiled two major solar energy projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the space of a week as they target one of Africa’s least electrified markets.
President João Lourenço of Angola has declared a break from the past, but Covid-19, allegations of corruption against officials and mounting debts are taking their toll.
After years of delay, multinational oil development in Uganda looks set to go ahead, but will local suppliers be able to reap a fair share of the business?
As foreign oil majors suspend operations in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province can the government reassert control
and keep crucial investments on track?
