After a long process of consideration and consultation the World Bank agreed to throw its backing behind the Chad-Cameroon oil project which it described as an "unprecedented framework to transform oil wealth into direct benefits for the poor, the vulnerable [.
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Banff Resources has just revised the cost estimate for its Kasese project upwards to $145 million. The cost of building [...]
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A first phase in the extension of the Owen Falls power station will be completed by the end of July [...]
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The energy and water ministry announced that a new hydro-electric power station would be built at Menongue in Kuando Kubango [...]
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A project to connect the power networks in Benin and [...]
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Kenya's power imports are expected to rise to 162 MW [...]
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Mozambique prime minister Pascoal Mocumbi said in Paris last week [...]
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A consortium made up of Elyo (Lyonnaise des Eaux) and [...]
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Algeria's Societe Nationale de l'Electricite et du Gaz (Sonelgaz) has [...]
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As expected the World Bank's board approved overwhelmingly –but not unanimously—the institution's backing for the Chad oil development and construction [...]
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In the wake of the World Bank's green light, opponents on the ground say they are determined to call on [...]
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A study is underway to peg out several blocks in the Kwanza basin in Angola's very deep offshore, Jose Mangueira, [...]
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With its Mondo discovery, ExxonMobil has identified seven fields on block 15 since 1998 and estimates their recoverable potential at [...]
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State-owned Sonatrach is seeking increasingly to spread its wings abroad, viewing foreign expansion of its exploration and production operations as [...]
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The Houston-based firm Vanco Energy Co. has begun looking for promising exploration licenses in a new African nation after setting [...]
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Energy Africa Limited has set a hot pace for its exploration and appraisal drilling for the rest of this year, [...]
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A fuel shortage that gripped Central African Republic in late May when neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo "requisitioned" 25,000 cu.m. [...]
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A second, six-member delegation of experts from the Polish company [...]
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ExxonMobil, operator and lone owner of Niger's Agadem concession, has [...]
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With the U.N. Security Council in full discussion over an embargo on Sierra Leone's diamonds, the U.S. Congress has opened [...]
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AEM has obtained a copy of an in-house working paper drafted on May 5 by the United States Agency for [...]
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Jean-Charles Okoto, loyal follower of president Laurent Kabila who became governor of Eastern Kasai in 1999 after serving as foreign [...]
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The trade association Federation Congolaise des Negociants d'Or et de Diamants (FECODI) has denounced a decree signed by mines minister [...]
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The world's three biggest platinum producers, Anglo American Platinum, Impala Platinum Holdings and Lonmin, are racing to take advantage of [...]
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The World Bank is currently working on a major Mineral Resources Management Plan aimed at attracting foreign mining groups to [...]
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Zimbabwe Platinum Mines (Zimplats) has ruled out concluding any financial arrangements for its Ngezi-SMS platinum project until changes that the [...]
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Niger's government is thinking of asking the European Commission to [...]
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Anglo American Zimbabwe (Amzim) has made an offer to acquire [...]
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