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NIGERIA’S NNPC spent 4.39 trillion naira ($9.7bn) on a petrol subsidy last year, latest data from the state-owned firm showed…

UGANDA has approved an application by a company controlled by France’s TotalEnergies  to construct a $3.5bn oil pipeline that will…

ETHIOPIAN Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has announced that his government has signed an agreement with a United Arab Emirates renewable…

MORE than 600 million Africans lacked access to electricity before the pandemic, and it appears that this figure is growing.…

THE Ministry of Hydrocarbons of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has selected US power engineering and construction firm,…

THE British government’s funding of up to $1.15bn for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique is lawful, a…

UGANDA’S cabinet has agreed for the energy ministry to sign production-sharing agreements (PSA) for two oil exploration blocks with two…

KENYA Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), a state-owned utility, on Thursday announced plans to add 3,000 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy…

SHELL will pay 15 million euros ($15.9 million) to communities in Nigeria that were affected by multiple oil pipeline leaks…

ZIMBABWE has proposed incentives to accelerate 1,000 megawatts of privately owned solar energy projects worth about $1bn, Finance Minister Mthuli…

ENVIRONMENTAL organisation Friends of the Earth asked a London court on Tuesday to rule that the British government’s funding of…

THE High Court in London has set January 16 next year to hear the Nigerian government’s appeal against an award…

A BRITISH lawyer representing Nigeria in a London court case in which $11bn are at stake said on Friday the…

ZAMBIA will start rationing electricity supply to domestic consumers from December 15 following a big drop in water levels in…

MANY today believe the era of colonialism in Africa is over. They’re wrong. The era of colonialism in Africa has…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AMEA Power, one of the fastest growing renewable energy companies in the Middle East, announced today…

NIGERIA expects to stop importing petroleum products from before or around the third quarter of 2023, its oil minister Timipre…

THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a loan package not exceeding €125 million to Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB)…

TANZANIA’S power utility authorities on Wednesday night officially announced power rationing across the country caused by the prolonged drought that…

THE Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa has secured a fresh injection of $64 million in grant funding from the Norwegian…