Energy & Mining
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A Blueprint for Energy Access: Empowering Africa through Innovation and Investment
JOHANNESBUR, November 29, 2025 — A few generations ago in America, grandparents often reminded children how fortunate they were by recalling stories of walking miles to school or doing homework by candlelight.…
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Africa G20 Declaration: Let African Fossil Fuels Power Our Industrial Future
KAMPALA, November 25-2025 — As the G20 convenes in Johannesburg, the African Energy Chamber [AEC] calls for a fundamental reorientation of global energy policy – one that places African fossil fuels at…
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Uganda’s recoverable oil reserves rise to 1.65bln barrels
KAMPALA, November 24, 2025 — Uganda’s petroleum sector has reported an increase in the country’s estimated oil and gas reserves, according to Ernest Rubondo, Executive Director of the Petroleum Authority of Uganda…
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Africa’s Clean Cooking Drive Hinges on Carbon-Credit Reform, Transport Upgrades
KAMPALA, November 24, 2025 — Africa’s long-delayed transition to clean cooking will fail without a serious overhaul of how the continent finances, transports and regulates LPG, senior executives said during a high-level…
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G20 African Energy Investment Forum Set to Shape Africa’s Investment Agenda
JOHANNESBURG, November 21, 2025 — The G20 African Energy Investment Forum – hosted by the African Energy Chamber [AEC] – is set to play a defining role in shaping Africa’s energy investment…
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Multilateral development of raw materials and commodities can spur industrialisation and African regional integration
KAMPALA, November 21, 2025— Africa’s raw materials are valuable commodities globally and, in many ways, what has been true since colonial times is still true today, Africa’s commodities are powering industrialisation everywhere across…
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Burundi: Explosion disrupts Ndayishimiye’s visit to gold-mining cooperative
BUJUMBURA, November 17, 2025 — A powerful explosion, described by witnesses as a lightning strike, caused panic during a recent visit by Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye to a gold-mining cooperative in Mabayi.…
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Broken promises by wealthy nations: Africa needs to finance its energy addition then transition
KAMPALA, November 11, 2025 — At this year’s Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference [ADIPEC], I was skeptical about participating in COP 30. African nations are heading to Brazil for COP…
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AFC secures US$ 100mln facility to finance renewable energy and low-carbon transport projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
LAGOS, October 22, 2025 — Africa Finance Corporation [ AFC ], the leading infrastructure solutions provider in Africa, has secured a US$ 100 million, 10-year term loan facility from FinDev Canada, Canada’s…
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Sanlam Investments Renews Sponsorship of Africa’s Green Economy Summit 2026
CAPE TOWN, October 18, 2025 — Sanlam Investments has confirmed its third sponsorship of Africa’s Green Economy Summit [AGES], taking place in February 2026, reaffirming its commitment to financing Africa’s sustainable future…
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