Month: August 2024

 The Africa Property Investment (API) Summit, the continent’s premier real estate gathering, returns for its 15th edition on 19 and 20 September 2024 for its Cape Town debut at the Westin Hotel, Cape Town.  Under the theme, ‘IMPACT’, this year’s summit will explore how effective strategy and execution are key to real estate success in today’s shifting African landscape. The 15th annual API Summit 2024 will bring together over 550 […]

 In an exclusive interview with Energy Capital&Power (www.EnergyCapitalPower.com), Anibor Kragha, Executive Secretary of the African Refiners and Distributors Association (ARDA), discusses the Association’s efforts to harmonize fuel standards, implement a three-decade energy transition strategy and invest in infrastructure. Kragha will participate in this year' edition of MSGBC Oil, Gas&Power - scheduled for December 3-4 in Dakar - where he will highlight the role downstream expansion plays in inclusive energy access […]

 Mining company African Rainbow Minerals (https://apo-opa.co/46M4tND) reached an agreement last September with financial services company Absa – along with finance institutions Standard Bank, the Development Bank of South Africa and Nedbank – to provide finance for the construction of a 132 MW solar project. The move is set to provide renewable energy to platinum mining projects in South Africa through power purchase agreements (PPAs).  To support the growth of South […]

 The developers of ONLYOFFICE (www.ONLYOFFICE.com) are enhancing the official integration with Odoo. From now on, along with the ability to edit and collaborate on budget plans and sales reports within Odoo, users can automate form creation with inserting fields from Odoo in templates thanks to ONLYOFFICE. Automated form creation: quick and easy The newly released ONLYOFFICE app is designed to add data from Odoo to documents in the easiest and […]

 African youth prefer democracy to any kind of authoritarian alternative but are more likely than their elders to be dissatisfied with the way democracy works in their countries, Afrobarometer’s (www.Afrobarometer.org) inaugural flagship report (https://apo-opa.co/4fFMfBE) shows.  The report, the first in what will be an annual series on high-priority topics, distils findings from data spanning more than a decade, including the latest round of nationally representative surveys in 39 African countries, representing […]

 Multinational energy corporation Chevron (https://apo-opa.co/4dqqdRR) recently signed two risk service contracts (RSCs) for Blocs 49 and 50, located in the ultra-deep waters of Angola’s Lower Congo Basin. The company – through its Angolan subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Ltd. – was initially awarded the concessions by way of Presidential Decree in January 2024. Signed in June 2024, the RSCs kick off new exploration activities and lay the foundation for block […]