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  • Diesel Prices in Morocco Are Lower than Worldwide Average

    MOROCCO, 2015/09/20 A new statement released on Monday by World Petrol Prices ranks Morocco part nations where the price of diesel is below the worldwide average (US $0.92 per liter). The statement noted that drivers pay on average $0.84 a liter for diesel in Morocco, which is considerably less than the price paid by drivers in Norway’s capital Oslo, at $1.59 a liter, placing Norway part the top three most expensive nations in the world for the said fuel. UK leads the inventory of world’s most expensive diesel at $1.67 a liter, followed by Israel ($1.60).

  • Sudan Energy A plan to power the country

    SUDAN, 2015/09/18 Following the Gulf funded extension of the Roseires Dam in 2013, Sudan is further looking to harness the country’s huge hydropower potential in order to boost power generation, while investment opportunities in renewables are as well available Provision of basic services such as electricity remains closely linked to economic increase. Electricity services are particularly essential, and it is one of areas that the Sudanese government has given increasing attention to in recent years. In a country which not so long ago was only capable of producing 200 megawatts (MW) of electricity, this has increased dramatically over the last decade with capacity standing presently well into the thousands of megawatts, meaning power is reaching far additional people in additional remote areas, with shortages and outages as well becoming much less of an occurrence.

  • Zimbabwe: Cabinet Approves U.S $77 Million Rural Electrification Agency's (REA) Project

    ZIMBABWE, 2015/08/27 CABINET has approved the Rural Electrification Agency's (REA) $77 million comprehensive electrification programme, to be undertaken by Indian company, Angelique International Limited. The approval follows recent awarding of the appropriate project tender to Angelique by the National Procurement Board to electrify 144 rural public institutions and grid electrification of 357 public institutions. The programme will as well result in the construction of two mini hydro power stations (Manyuchi and Muzoro) with a combined capacity of 2,5 megawatts. Documents at hand show that the urgency of the electrification project was emphasised as a priority area in all four clusters of the Zim-Investment policy that relate to price addition and beneficiation, food security and nutrition, social services and poverty reduction, infrastructure and utilities.

  • Liberian Senate Agrees to Privatize Energy Sector

    LIBERIA, 2015/08/27 The Liberian Senate has endorsed a approbation from its committee on Lands, Mines, Energy, Natural Resources and Environment requesting that body to enact two pieces of legislation privatizing the energy sector. The energy committee, in its statement, called on the Senate to open up the market fully to private sector participation, an electricity law and an act for the new LEC or its successor. In the statement submitted to the plenary of the Senate, the committee claimed that the establishment of an independent and transparent regulatory process will be essential for the creation of an environment conducive to increase private sector involvement in the energy sector, as contained in the National Energy Policy. "To achieve independence and transparency, the institutional framework must avoid conflicts of interest and overlapping roles by separating policy setting, regulatory oversight, and policy implementation and operation," the committee said.

  • Liberia: 'Austerity Measures' - Nocal Blames Oil Price On Redundancy

    LIBERIA, 2015/08/24 The Board of Directors of the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) has announced that the company has embarked on an internal re-organization exercise aimed at ensuring the survival of the entity going forward. Addressing NOCAL's management and staff Friday, August 21, at a general staff conference, the Chairman of the of Board of Directors, Counselor Seward Cooper, explained that the continuing fall in the price of oil on the world market has caused critical fiscal difficulties for the company. He said despite the best efforts of Board and Management to put in place several austerity measures to manage the situation, the continuing crumbling oil prices has severely undermined NOCAL's capacity to meet its operational and personnel obligations.

  • Akon Lighting Africa Unveils Its Strategy in Benin

    BENIN, 2015/08/13 The co-founders of Akon Lighting Africa unveiled their long-term objective to use solar activities to drive education by introducing connected tablet devices. During a stop in Benin, which was the last stop on this two-week road show during which Akon Lighting Africa concluded its African road show last in Benin. The three co-founders, Akon, Thione Niang and Samba Bathily inspected the new street lamps installed in the district of Pahou, near to the capital Cotonou with Prime Minister, Mr. Lionel Zinsou. "The solar power we are providing can be used to connect all sorts of devices - telephones to communicate, fridges to keep food so why not to power computers too. We presented the outline of a new project we hope to launch within the next few months to supply learning devices and to set up smart schools" explained Akon. "Akon Lighting Africa is an initiative that puts top priority on African development. Access to energy will drive rapid transformations in Africa. Electrification initial, education next" added Thione Niang.

  • Côte d'Ivoire's President Launches West African Energy Leaders Group

    BENIN, 2015/07/31 Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara headed a top-level line-up of political and business leaders on Tuesday, June 30 in Abidjan to launch the African Energy Leaders Group (AELG) in West Africa, with concrete plans to drive sector reforms and a pipeline of bankable investment projects for sustainable energy access across the region. Sub-Saharan Africa, where 600 million people live without electricity, has the lowest level of energy access in the world, and West Africa has the highest levels of energy poverty on the continent. Electricity and clean cooking facilities are fundamental building-blocks for prosperity and wellbeing, from basic health and education to industrial and agricultural development.

  • China grants loan to Mozambique for power transmission line

    CHINA, 2015/07/23 China will grant a loan of US$400 million to Mozambique, the all outstanding for the construction of a second power line for energy transmission from the centre to the north of the country, a government spokesman said Tuesday in Maputo. Mouzinho Saide, who is as well Mozambique’s deputy health minister, said next a Cabinet conference that the US$400 million loan had been secured but according to daily newspaper Notícias, he did not mention either the date on which the loan will be granted or its conditions. At the conference the government of Mozambique analysed ratified, part other things, the loan agreement concluded on 11 June, by which the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) offered to provide US$200 million dollars for the transmission line that will link Chimuara, in Zambézia province, and Nacala, in Nampula province, over a route of just over 600 kilometres.

  • Mozambique’s port of Nacala, Mozambique to start exporting coal

    MOZAMBIQUE, 2015/07/21 The new Nacala-a-Velha coal terminal, in Mozambique’s Nampula province, has received 50 tons of coal, and this is the initial time coal will be exported from this port, said the director of the Nacala Integrated Logistics Corridor. This corridor includes a 900-kilometre railway between Moatize and Nacala-a-Velha, crossing through part of Malawi, costing an estimated US$4.4 billion and is the result of a partnership between Brazilian group Vale and Mozambican national port and railway company CFM. José Ottoni, director of the Nacala Integrated Logistics Corridor, said the Interior Minister Jaime Basilio Monteiro, visiting Nampula province, said legal procedures were underway to bring the initial ship to Nacala, because the vessel is licensed to load from the port of Beira.

  • EU talks of its energy partnership with Africa

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2015/07/19 SOME of the new favourite buzzwords to come out of the UN development summit in Ethiopia are “blending”, in terms of the type of finance for development coming from private and public funds, and “partners”.  This was particularly evident at a side event on the Africa-EU partnership (AEEP) where the highly-animated Roberto Ridolfi, the European Commission’s Director for Sustainable Growth and Development, was keen to shed the use of the word “donor”, insisting instead that Western states be instead referred to as partners.  He explained that this is because it cannot be denied that all states have their own “political, economic and commercial” interests too. When looking at the financing of development in relation to Africa’s energy sector, it is evident that all players were keen to get a slice of Africa’s energy action. Though the debate was centered on the EU-Africa partnership, the US’s new “Power Africa” group was also in strong attendance with their Chief of Staff, Melanie Vant, sitting on the panel.
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