It will be very difficult to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by enough to halt global heating at 1.5°C - the threshold at which catastrophic climate change becomes more likely...
Marcelle McManus 3 Jul 2019
With the 13 June attacks on two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz-a vital Gulf of Oman waterway-investors may be wondering if these types of disruptions could derail the global oil market...
Fred Fromm 25 Jun 2019
Botswana is reaping the rewards of decades of successfully managing its diamond sector to become one of the fastest growing economies in Africa...
25 Jun 2019
New trends in energy storage, small-scale embedded generation, and smart grid systems are disrupting the power sector, a trend that will accelerate in South Africa with the recent lifting of licence restraints on power plants....
12 Jun 2019
The advent of renewables, new storage technologies present Africa's utilities with an opportunity to increase capacity and efficiency while re-kindling their appeal to investors...
11 Jun 2019
The transformation of the world's energy markets continues to gain momentum. Renewable energy projects, which have seen a rapid decline in cost over the last decade, are increasingly powering the world's large economies...
6 Jun 2019
Russia has never had an African colony. It stayed out of the scramble for Africa, only engaging with African states in the 19th Century.
János Besenyo 3 Jun 2019
Lengthy power cuts are pretty much a daily experience in Nigeria. The country's epileptic power supply has been identified by businesses as the second biggest obstacle to doing business in the country, after a lack of access to finance...
Samuel Ayokunle Olowosejeje 31 May 2019
The incredible wealth of the Southern African region's offshore mineral deposits was once again highlighted by the oil and gas find off the coast of Mossel Bay...
Otto Shikongo 30 May 2019
Vedanta Resources is seeking at urgent meeting with Zambia president Edgar Lungu ahead of a High Court hearing on Friday to rule on an application to provisionally liquidate Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) which Vedanta controls...
22 May 2019
Even if the country remained committed to long-term coal-fired energy in a world rapidly transforming to green energy, it would have difficulty finding investors to build the infrastructure...
Nicci Botha 17 May 2019
Production levels in Angola are expected to soar by 2020 following the reorganisation of the state oil company Sonangol, and a drastic revision of country's legislation related to oil and gas...
13 May 2019
South Africa signs an exploration and production sharing agreement (EPSA) with South Sudan for Block B2...
9 May 2019
The business model for energy investment needs to change. There are far too many players that are comfortable with the same structures for investment, selling to an SOE (state-owned enterprise) with a government guarantee...
30 Apr 2019
