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The urgent need for collaboration across the continent as the world accelerates its transition to clean energy is reflected in this year’s African Mining Indaba’s (MI26) 2026 theme, Stronger together: Progress through partnerships (Image supplied)

Investing in African Mining Indaba 2026 theme calls for partnerships

30 May 2025

#AfricaDay: Integrating technical solutions with ESG to advance modern African economies

#AfricaDay: Integrating technical solutions with ESG to advance modern African economies

26 May 2025

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Bronwyn Williams stars in Pulp Non-Fiction on Bizcommunity

Bronwyn Williams stars in Pulp Non-Fiction on Bizcommunity

Bizcommunity.com 30 Jul 2020

The hydropower potential at the Grand Inga site on the Congo River, the largest remaining untapped hydropower potential in the world.

Why wind and solar would offer the DRC and South Africa better energy deals than Inga 3

Grace C Wu & Ranjit Deshmukh 24 Jul 2020

The Grand Renaissance Dam: what's at stake and what could break the deadlock

The Grand Renaissance Dam: what's at stake and what could break the deadlock

Mahemud Tekuya 23 Jul 2020

Africa's distributed renewable energy sector still dominated by foreign players

Africa's distributed renewable energy sector still dominated by foreign players

21 Jul 2020

De-risking investments to boost Africa's renewable energy transition

De-risking investments to boost Africa's renewable energy transition

16 Jul 2020

Methane gas extraction on Lake Kivu. Photo by Eric LAFFORGUE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Rwanda extracts methane from Lake Kivu for electricity. How it works

Natacha Tofield-Pasche 16 Jul 2020

Toufik Khitous, business development manager for North Africa, Wärtsilä Energy Business

How Egypt banks on renewables to meet expected surge of energy demand

Toufik Khitous 15 Jul 2020

Electric vehicles could add to carbon emissions and load shedding: but there's a solution

Electric vehicles could add to carbon emissions and load shedding: but there's a solution

MJ (Thinus) Booysen and Mark Apperley 10 Jul 2020

Trilateral talks resume on Grand Renaissance hydroelectric project

Trilateral talks resume on Grand Renaissance hydroelectric project

8 Jul 2020

Post-Covid-19: Delivering sustainable energy across Africa

Post-Covid-19: Delivering sustainable energy across Africa

Siyabonga Mbanjwa 30 Jun 2020

Kibali Mine is fully automated. Image: Barrick Gold Corporation

Covid is forcing the mining sector to adopt technology

23 Jun 2020

The Nigerian Naira has been under a lot pressure lately
Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Nigeria's post-Covid-19 recovery plan has some merit. But it misses the mark

Tolu Olarewaju 22 Jun 2020

Ivanhoe's Kamoa-Kakula Mine in DRC

Commodities, power and capacity building

22 Jun 2020

Barrick's Kibali mine

Miners bump heads over DRC mining code

19 Jun 2020

Kenyan miners have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic Recep Canik/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Covid-19 is underscoring the vulnerable lives of Kenya's artisanal gemstone miners

Judy N Muthuri 18 Jun 2020

Source: Further Africa

Update on Mozambique LNG project

8 Jun 2020

The demand of power in West Africa is rising. Sebastian Sterl

How West Africa can expand power supply and meet climate goals

Sebastian Sterl & Robert Brecha 5 Jun 2020

Ghana is still finding ways of maximising its oil wealth. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Ghana has tried to be responsible with its oil wealth. This is how

Emmanuel Graham, Ismael Ackah, Nathan Andrews & Ransford Edward 29 May 2020

Going underground in Camarines Norte province, Philippines. EPA

Meet the struggling gold miners who are missing out on boom in the precious metal

Sara Geenen & Boris Verbrugge 27 May 2020

#LockdownLessons: Companies putting the grit in integrity

#LockdownLessons: Companies putting the grit in integrity

Bizcommunity.com 26 May 2020

Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project

Mining in a post-Covid DRC will be "survival of the fittest"

22 May 2020

Tom Alweendo, Namibia’s minister of mines and energy.

Namibia's plans for greater energy security

Nicci Botha 18 May 2020

New Angolan budgetary restrictions underline government's determination to support Opec

New Angolan budgetary restrictions underline government's determination to support Opec

13 May 2020

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Total buys Tullow Oil's Uganda project

29 Apr 2020

Oil smeared fishboats on oily mud in the river during low tide at K-Dere, near Bodo in the Niger Delta region Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images

How oil and water create a complex conflict in the Niger Delta

Abosede Omowumi Babatunde 23 Apr 2020

Should Africa consider the nuclear energy route?

Should Africa consider the nuclear energy route?

22 Apr 2020

Not taking lockdown lying down: A 360 industry overview

Not taking lockdown lying down: A 360 industry overview

Bizcommunity.com 21 Apr 2020

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AU study: Covid-19 could cost Africa $500bn, damage tourism and aviation sectors

Kingsley Ighobor 17 Apr 2020

10 ways to stay connected on Biz during lockdown

10 ways to stay connected on Biz during lockdown

Bizcommunity.com 15 Apr 2020

Angola more exposed to financial crisis

Angola more exposed to financial crisis

Craig Lebrau, Lebrau Press 2 Jul 2020