Tag: Energy
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26 Apr 24 NewsUS official announces business partnership with Kenya (Voice of America)
About 1,300 delegates and 400 companies participated in the fourth American Chamber of Commerce summit in ...
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25 Apr 24 NewsSouth Africa initiates second dispute complaint regarding EU citrus fruit measures (WTO)
South Africa is challenging the EU’s prohibition on the importation of South African cit...
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23 Apr 24 NewsKenya second-hand clothes imports from China rise 86pc (The East African)
The quantity of second-hand clothes imported from China, which is Kenya’s main source of the popular lo...
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12 Apr 24 NewsSouth Africa seeks to secure global plastics pollution treaty by balancing competing interests (Engineering News)
South Africa will seek to secure a legally binding global plastic...
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11 Apr 24 NewsSouth Africa well placed to benefit from huge green hydrogen outlook, attendees hear (Engineering News)
Green hydrogen has a massive potential future and South Africa is very well...
Climate-backed Financing in Africa and Its Impact on Energy Mix, Infrastructure Development, Storage, and Trade of Surpluses
08 Apr 24 PublicationsThis Trade Report explores the transformative role of climate-backed financing in accelerating Africa’s transition to a renewable energy future. It underscores the criticality of...
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27 Mar 24 NewsChicken industry needs no tariff rebates because there is no shortage, Sapa stresses (Engineering News)
Executives from the South African Poultry Association (Sapa) met with Trade...
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22 Mar 24 News$10-billion Namibian green hydrogen project receives major German boost (Engineering News)
Namibia’s first gigawatt scale green hydrogen project – the $10-billion Hyphen devel...
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13 Mar 24 NewsScorching heat raises SA food inflation risk (The Herald)
Dryer and hotter-than-usual weather across South Africa’s main summer crop growing regions is hurting the outlook for t...
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05 Mar 24 NewsWorkshop aims to provide an overview of the AfCFTA (SAnews)
South Africa’s Special Economic Zones operators and businesses are to be exposed to the benefits of the African Conti...
SA’s New Energy Vehicle future hangs in the balance
24 Feb 24 BlogAs promised, South Africa’s finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, did announce incentives for New Energy Vehicle (NEV) manufacturing in his 2024 budget speech. But the package is d...
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19 Feb 24 NewsSouth Africa: Budget must address revenue challenges, infrastructure investments (Engineering News)
While there has been a clear effort by the National Treasury to rein in spendin...
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15 Feb 24 NewsVegetable export bans stir concerns in Southern African agriculture (Food For Mzansi)
While Botswana and Namibia have banned vegetable exports from South Africa, trade relations b...
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06 Feb 24 NewsEnergy shortage presents mining industry with opportunities, pivotal choices (Mining Weekly)
The energy challenges facing mining companies in South Africa have given rise to signi...
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05 Feb 24 NewsTransnet says rail volumes recovered slightly in the last quarter of 2023 (Engineering News)
Transnet says it has witnessed signs of recovery on the North Corridor, which was able...
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30 Jan 24 NewsItaly-Africa Summit
Italy unveils its plan for the development of Africa (Africanews)
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Monday unveiled Italy’s big development plan for Africa ...
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24 Jan 24 NewsAqora becomes Afrivolt, aims for battery cell manufacturing in Cape Town (Engineering News)
South African energy company Aqora has rebranded to become Afrivolt, says MD Deshan Nai...
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22 Jan 24 NewsSouth Africa must build renewable energy momentum, and then move on to other sectors (Engineering News)
The rapid pace at which South Africa is building renewable energy projects,...
Regional Electricity Market under the AfCFTA: Prospects and Challenges for Ethiopia
16 Dec 23 BlogThe African Union (AU) launched the Africa single electricity market (AfSEM) initiative in 2021 to boost the African electricity sector sustainably and promote an integrated contin...
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12 Dec 23 NewsSouth Africa to seek bids for new nuclear power station (Reuters)
South Africa will launch a bidding process for an extra 2,500 megawatts (MW) of nuclear power by March, as the co...