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Africa: who’s got the power?
You tell a lot by a country’s electricity supply – in fact, some people prefer it to GDP when it comes to assessing China. So how is Africa doing? A new Afrobarometer survey of 34 African countries –...
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Africa’s energy gap: confident investors needed
Nigeria has been beloved of investors lately, the accessible face of an irresistible rising demographic in sub-Saharan Africa. But it faces challenges, and none more so than the paucity of its...
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Guest post: a wall of money awaits Africa power projects
By David Humphrey, Standard Bank Group Sitting around a fire in the middle of the Namib Desert, western tourists can sample the twin delights of African cuisine and its staggeringly beautiful night...
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S Africa: renewables interest dampened by legal hurdles
South Africa’s latest round of renewable energy contracts has attracted interest from European developers after home subsidies have dried up, but legal uncertainty and rules over local ownership may...
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Guest post: how do we power Africa’s economic renaissance?
By Kandeh K Yumkella of UNIDO When I look at the future of my continent, three words come to mind: hope, opportunity and responsibility. Hope, because there is positive change happening throughout...
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Mozambique coal: Nippon steps in
Anglo American may have passed on this one, but Nippon are up for it. Japan’s largest steel company, Nippon Steel and Suminato Metal Corp, was given the go-ahead on Thursday to develop the Revuboè coal...
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Botswana: coal dreams
Botswana may be the world’s top diamond producer, but it is keen to diversify its exports away from precious stones. The country has been steadily mapping out a plan to develop what it says are its...
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Guest post: Obama’s Africa electricity plan need not be a drop in the ocean
By Bright Simons of IMANI Ghana On the fourth day of Barack Obama’s 6-day Africa tour, the president has unveiled a multibillion dollar initiative to help Africa tackle its crippling power deficit....
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South Africa: no frack back track
A year after it lifted a moratorium on fracking, South Africa’s government is poised to issue exploration licenses for shale gas. The move is heating up the debate on the impcat of the process. South...
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Geothermal in Kenya: full steam ahead
Kenya is already the world’s ninth largest geothermal power producer. It plans to do better by following an ambitious geothermal development plan. The east African state’s installed geothermal capacity...
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Diesel supply bedevils investments in Africa’s internet
“If you wake me up at 2 am and ask me what I am thinking about, the answer is power,” says Pankaj Kulshrestha, chief operating officer of Eaton Towers, one of a crop of infrastructure companies that...
View ArticleInteractive map – Chinese dams in Africa
Following a decade in which Chinese largesse has helped to transform Africa’s prospects – and challenged the supremacy that western companies once enjoyed over the continent’s natural resources –...
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Victim of shale revolution, Nigeria stops exporting oil to US
Nigeria has become the first country to completely stop selling oil to the US due to the impact of the shale revolution – an astounding reversal as the African nation was only four years ago one of the...
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Guest post: why are SWF’s shy of African investments?
By Juergen Braunstein, London School of Economics Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) could easily resolve Africa’s infrastructure funding issues, or go a long way toward doing so. So why are they so...
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Developing economies need power from coal
By Benjamin Sporton, World Coal Association Over recent weeks, World Bank climate change envoy Rachel Kyte has made a number of comments claiming that coal is not part of the solution to energy...
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African power: first turn the lights on, then keep them on
A year on and I am sitting on a tropical island, eating my dinner on the beach and, like in Namibia, the Tanzanian African night sky remains unpolluted by man-made light. Good news and bad news…...
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Obama’s power initiative in Africa needs re-energising
By Reda El Chaar, Access Power As President Barack Obama embarks on Thursday on a farewell trip to the UK, thoughts are turning to how the outgoing leader’s legacy is likely to be remembered. To those...
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“Conflict gold” blights the Democratic Republic of Congo
By Yigal Chazan, Alaco Over the past two decades, large swathes of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been subjected to conflict between rival militia groups, which together with some...
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