Tag: Energy

African governments have been urged to harmonise regulatory and legal frameworks to attract more investors into the continent’s energy sector. Kipyego Cheluget, the Common Marke...

The First Ordinary Session meeting of the STC on Transport, Intercontinental and Interregional Infrastructures, Energy and Tourism will be held in Lomé, Togo from 13 to 17 March 2...

Industries and the products they make can play a considerable role in the global effort to tackle climate change. Making them part of the solution while helping them stay competiti...

Southern African leaders are expected to discuss measures to mobilise resources for developing energy infrastructure as a key enabler for the region’s industrialisation thrust as...

Southern African Development Community (SADC) Member States must establish more joint investments on strategic energy and water projects to promote region energy and water security...

Deepening cooperation in areas of hydrocarbons, maritime security, trade and investment, agriculture and food will be major focus of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s five-day ...

On 1 June, REN21 published the most comprehensive annual overview of the state of renewable energy. The Renewables 2016 Global Status Report reveals that renewables are now firmly ...

According to new GEGI research in collaboration with Yongzhong Wang of the Chinese Academy of Social Science’s Institute for World Economics and Politics, in just over a decade C...

The World Economic Forum for Africa, scheduled to kick off in Kigali tomorrow, will be an opportunity to create awareness about the anticipated Fourth Industrial Revolution, which ...

In Niger’s eastern region of Diffa in the south of the Ténéré Desert – a vast sandy area across Niger and Chad up in the Sahara desert – are the ruins of a centu...

AfDB Group President Akinwumi Adesina concludes Friday, a five-day visit to three Southern African countries – Mozambique, Malawi and South Africa – where he pledged support fo...

Second Global Coal Plant Tracker Report shows risk of excessive investment remains after reported China coal permit suspension On 29 March, the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and CoalSw...

Coal and gas-fired electricity generation last year drew less than half the record investment made in solar, wind and other renewables capacity – one of several important firsts ...

Can Africa be the next clean energy powerhouse? That was the question posed by the second plenary panel at the Africa CEO Forum – and panelists reached the conclusion that the an...

The metaphor for Africa’s continued backwardness is the energy crisis that many countries in the region are grappling with, says Economic Commission for Africa sub-regional offic...

Energy is the central theme of the African Development Bank’s 2016 Annual Meetings as well as its 2015 Annual Report. The theme, “Energy and Climate Change”, unders...

One of the most important findings noted at the Africa launch of the World Bank’s Progress Toward Sustainable Energy: Global Tracking Framework 2015 (GTF) report for th...

African energy stakeholders met at a 2-day workshop in the margins of the Joint Africa-EU Strategy meeting of the “Reference Group on Infrastructure”, to develop cooperation at...

Energy underpins every aspect of economic development. The world acknowledged that by adopting a dedicated UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 7) that aims to ensure access to aff...

DHL whitepaper highlights unprecedented market conditions, forcing industry to adjust supply chains New research from DHL, the world’s leading logistics provider, shows that a l...