Month: February 2024

Foday B. L. Mansaray, Director General of the Petroleum Directorate of Sierra Leone, will speak at the upcoming forum, as the country seeks to establish itself as an exploration hotspot. Foday B. L. Mansaray, Director General of the Petroleum Directorate of Sierra Leone (PDSL), will promote the country’s upstream opportunities and available blocks at the upcoming Invest in African Energy (IAE) forum in Paris on May 14-15. Though considered a […]

By Bezawit Assefa The Episcopal consecration of Reverend Father Teshome Fikre (Ph.D.) was done on 11th February 2024 in Emdibir Eparchy, where the Pope appointed him to be Co adjutor Bishop in last December 2023. The Holy Mass and consecration ceremony was presided over by His Eminence Cardinal Abune Birhaneyesus, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ethiopia with Bishops, Priests. The event was attendsed by His Grace Archbishop Antoine […]

In a significant move to advance renewable energy deployment in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) (www.AfricaFC.org), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider and SkyPower Global have entered a Joint Development Agreement for the first phase of SkyPower’s Green Giant project in the DRC. This 200MW Phase 1 is a crucial step in realising the landmark 1,000MW Solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) signed between SkyPower and […]

The share purchase agreement – signed February 15 – supports Gabon’s efforts to boost oil production and attract further investment to its upstream sector.  Under efforts to enhance Gabon’s position as a competitive oil and gas market, Gabon Oil Company (GOC) has acquired the Gabonese assets of US private equity firm Carlyle - the owner of Gabon-focused oil and gas company, Assala Energy. The African Energy Chamber (AEC) – the […]

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s president, Felix Tshisekedi, is only two weeks into his second term. Yet, Congolese security services are increasingly cracking down on peaceful activists in a manner reminiscent of President Kabila’s government, which Tshisekedi, then an opponent, vehemently denounced. On 3 February 2024, four activists from Lutte pour le Changement (LUCHA) and three other people were arrested in the capital, Kinshasa. Bundled into unidentified cars by […]

The government is scaling up investment in irrigation to enhance the country’s food production capacity, President William Ruto has said. He said irrigation will help the country increase acreage under cultivation and stop reliance on rain-fed agriculture. President Ruto said the government’s KSh60 billion investment in water projects will help the country reduce the importation of food that can be produced locally. “Every year, we spend KSh500 billion to import […]