Uganda has signed a landmark deal with Tanzania for the construction of the world’s longest electrically heated crude oil pipeline, working in partnership with French oil supermajor Total. The 1440km Continue Reading
President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. Ugandans are making disparaging comments on social media about the multibillion-dollar oil pipeline deal that the country has Continue Reading
The developers of a $4 billion hydropower plant on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border delayed the project until next year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Pre-construction work on the Batoka Gorge project Continue Reading
A Total petrol station in Kampala Uganda. Total SE signed agreements along with Ugandan officials for an oil development set to transform the East African nation into a significant crude Continue Reading
Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, right, gestures during a meeting with Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan that preceded the signing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Tripartite Project Continue Reading
Tensions are rising between Egypt and Ethiopia as Addis Ababa moves closer to diverting water to a massive hydroelectric project on the Nile that has been a center of a decade-long dispute Continue Reading
French group Total suspends work at gas plant near Palma despite authorities’ claims order has been restored. The attack bore all the hallmarks of the Islamist insurgents that have terrorised Continue Reading
The future of the $60-billion project is now in doubt. The French Energy company Total withdrew all its personnel from its Afungi liquid natural gas (LNG) facility near Palma, on Continue Reading
The Mozambican army has been battling insurgents since 2017. Total on Friday abandoned its installations on Afungi peninsula. All Total staff have been withdrawn, unlike the closure on 1 January Continue Reading
A US$20-billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project led by France’s Total in Mozambique is beyond the reach of Islamic state-aligned insurgents who started last week a coordinated attack near the Continue Reading
“The remobilization of the project that was envisaged at the beginning of the week is obviously now suspended,” Total said In a statement Saturday (27 Mar) “Total has decided to Continue Reading
Frelimo bet the country on gas – and has just lost the bet. The Frelimo leadership was dazzled by the gas, and believed Mozambique would be like Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Continue Reading
Fighting continues in the Cabo Delgado town of Palma and concerns are growing that Mozambique may never be able to pacify the area enough to enable the return of Total Continue Reading
With more than a week of fierce fighting including beheaded bodies in the streets, the battle for the northern Mozambique town of Palma has highlighted the southern Africa country’s insurgency Continue Reading
The French oil and gas company Total has announced that it is suspending resumption of work on building natural gas liquefaction plants in the Afungi Peninsula, in the northern Mozambican Continue Reading
Militants have been battling the Mozambican army around Palma for days Dozens of people are dead following an attack on the town of Palma in northern Mozambique, according to a Continue Reading
An insurgent attack on a Mozambican town near a $20 billion liquefied natural gas project that Total SE is building left dozens of people dead and state infrastructure destroyed, the Continue Reading
Jihadi rebels are fighting to capture Palma, a strategic town in northern Mozambique where fighting continued Thursday after launching a three-pronged assault on the center a day earlier. The town Continue Reading
Had everything gone according to plan, Kenya would be reading to begin its commercial export of crude oil on a large scale next year. This was after success in sale Continue Reading
Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi has held talks with his counterpart in neighboring Tanzania to prepare a wider regional response to violence from Islamic State-aligned insurgents that threaten the progress of Continue Reading
When Rwanda’s president said last August that he wanted all of the country’s motorbikes to be electric as soon as possible, Ampersand’s waiting list exploded. The country’s first electric motorbike Continue Reading
Supermajors ExxonMobil and Total are renegotiating a natural gas resource sharing deal for their respective liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects offshore Mozambique, Reuters reports , citing sources with knowledge of Continue Reading
Times of recession usually bring up overused terms like belt-tightening or company restructuring though distressed periods are just as useful for settling old scores and shaping up new partnerships. Testifying Continue Reading
Desert locusts are breeding afresh in Ethiopia and Somalia and new swarms will form by mid-December and are likely to move southwards toward Kenya. “Although countries are better prepared compared to Continue Reading
A colossal dam is near completion on Ethiopia’s stretch of the Nile, a project so large that it promises to set the country on a path to industrialization that could Continue Reading
The number of people hit by seasonal flooding in East Africa has increased more than fivefold in four years, according to UN figures. Nearly six million people have been affected Continue Reading
Argument U.S. diplomacy has failed. African diplomacy can’t afford to. Egypt and Sudan have threatened to withdraw from negotiations over the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Continue Reading
Total SE CEO Patrick Pouyanné and Mozambican president Filipe Nyusi met to discuss an intensifying Islamic State-linked insurgency. Bloomberg) — Total SE Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanné and Mozambican president Continue Reading
South Sudan’s state-controlled Nile Petroleum Corporation (Nilepet) has started preparations to take over the management of some oilfields in the country by 2027, when it will let the contract with Continue Reading
France’s Total has signed a pact with the government of Mozambique to bolster security for a US$20-billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) development the energy group leads in the African country, Continue Reading
Back in 2010, Texas-based Anadarko Corp. (now a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corp. ) and Italian energy giant ENI SpA announced the discovery of approximately 180 trillion cubic feet of Continue Reading
The photos are truly the stuff of nightmares: Swarms of desert locusts blocking out the sun, blanketing fields, and devouring crops in East Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Continue Reading
Fighters linked to Islamic State took control of a northern Mozambican port town that’s been a key logistics link for a $23 billion natural-gas project being built by Total SE, Continue Reading
The road from Kampala, the capital of Uganda, to Jinja, the site of Africa’s first electric bus factory, was packed with cars on a July morning. The traffic crawled. Breathing hurt your throat. Continue Reading
The youngest internationally recognized nation on earth, South Sudan’s relationship with its oil and gas reserves has been troubled and ambivalent – ever since its first day of existence oil Continue Reading
Ethiopia’s prime minister said negotiations on Tuesday with Egypt and Sudan had paved the way for an agreement over the country’s hydroelectric dam on one of the Nile River’s tributaries, Continue Reading
South Sudan’s oil production has dropped by 20,000 b/d to 170,000 b/d because of the impact of surging coronavirus cases, which has led to disruptions in operations at oil fields, Continue Reading
Ethiopia has been at loggerheads with downstream neighbors Egypt and Sudan for years over a $4.8 billion mega-dam it’s building on the Nile River. Now the standoff is coming to Continue Reading
Satellite images of Africa’s biggest hydropower project show a reservoir flooding with water from heavy rainfall in recent weeks, adding to tensions that risk spilling into open conflict. The photos Continue Reading
The dam’s construction, seen here in December 2019, began in 2011 A reservoir behind Ethiopia’s disputed Grand Renaissance dam on the River Nile has started filling with water – a Continue Reading
African Union-brokered talks ended without an agreement on a disputed dam project on the Nile River’s main tributary, potentially ratcheting up tensions between two key U.S. allies on the continent. The Continue Reading
Highlights Militants kill eight contract workers close to LNG developments Home to more than 30 million mt/year of planned LNG capacity Developers could look to private military contractors: analyst London Continue Reading
Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan are engaged in last-ditch talks to resolve a dispute over Addis Ababa’s construction of a giant dam on the river Nile that Cairo fears could lead Continue Reading
Gunmen have recently killed eight workers from a firm subcontracted by France’s Total to work on its $20-billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique, the subcontractor company said on Continue Reading
Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan will agree on a deal to fill the giant Blue Nile dam in two to three weeks, following mediation by the African Union to broker a Continue Reading
A last-ditch attempt to resolve a decade-long dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over a huge new hydropower dam on the Nile has failed, raising the stakes in what – for Continue Reading
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia on Sunday said talks would continue later this week to resolve their dispute over a Nile dam Ethiopia is constructing, even as Cairo accused Addis Ababa Continue Reading
Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia on Tuesday resumed talks on the giant Blue Nile hydropower dam after the failure of a U.S-led mediation effort earlier this year, a Sudanese official said. Continue Reading
Ethiopia’s government vowed to continue work on a massive dam that’s stoked tensions with Egypt, even as the Horn of Africa nation contends with the growing spread of the coronavirus. Continue Reading
THE National Oil Infrastructure Company of Zimbabwe (NOIC), Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) are making concerted efforts to resolve the biting fuel crisis, Continue Reading
