Raja & Widad

Gas Exploration: UK Chariot Company Gets New Moroccan Onshore Licence

UK Chariot Energy Company announced on Monday that it has signed a Petroleum Agreement for a new exploration licence, Loukos Onshore, located onshore Morocco. Under the agreement, Chariot holds 75 % interest in, and operatorship of the Loukos licence sealed in partnership with the Moroccan National Office of Hydrocarbons & Mines (ONHYM) which will hold […]

“Historical” trial opens with ex-Guinea military ruler blamed for 2009 stadium massacre

Former Guinean president and military ruler Moussa Dadis Camara and 10 other men are set to face trial for a 2009 stadium massacre that saw the killing of 150 people and mass rape of more than 100 women by the country’s security forces. According to a report by a United Nations-mandated international commission, on 28 […]

Pandemic and Ukraine war are pushing Africa’s power companies to the brink

The COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine have been pushing many electric grid utilities in Africa — which have long been strapped for cash — close to financial collapse, whereby this situation is in turn also slowing down the continent’s clean energy transition. Ghana’s electric grid is in dire straits. In the mid-2010s, […]