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One of Africa’s biggest natural gas opportunities is entering a defining phase, but Mozambique’s local businesses have been told they cannot rely on government protection to secure a share of the country’s multibillion-dollar LNG industry.
French energy giant TotalEnergies has inaugurated Africa’s largest hybrid renewable energy project in South Africa, marking a major milestone in the continent’s shift towards cleaner electricity while helping strengthen one of Africa’s most strained power systems.
The Neville Smith Group has immediately ceased accepting old-growth logs, backing a Palawa-led conservation vision initiated by the Forest Congress in Tasmania.
Trafigura has withdrawn from a proposed 2,000-megawatt (MW) power transmission project that was expected to transport surplus hydropower from Angola to energy-hungry copper and cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia.
Mining giant De Beers is suspending production at South Africa’s biggest diamond mine for two years, as changing consumer habits continue to shrink profits.
Kuwait’s Zain is making one of its biggest telecom bets in years, committing over $1.5 billion to operate and modernise a mobile network in Syria, more than a decade after selling a vast African business built from Celtel, the company founded by British-Sudanese billionaire Mo Ibrahim
China’s Hengli Petrochemical has cancelled millions of barrels of crude oil purchases, including cargoes from West Africa, as U.S. sanctions continue to disrupt the operations of one of the country’s largest independent refiners
When Tropical Storm Ana made landfall in Malawi in 2022, it hit the landlocked country’s electricity system hard, destroying a third of its hydropower capacity and causing nationwide system shutdowns
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. ADNOC is nearing a deal to acquire British energy giant Shell Plc’s South African fuel retail business for about $1 billion, a transaction that would give the UAE state-owned company a significant foothold in Africa’s largest fuel market, Bloomberg reported