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The government of Seychelles has recently commissioned a real estate project that will provide 700 transit houses with solar energy for people affected by disasters. Supported by the Indian government, the houses are located in Grand Anse, one of the islands of the archipelago. According to Philip Morin, Public Utilities Corporation (PUC) Executive […]
Nigeria partnered with Morocco to achieve its food security through an increase in use of fertilisers, Nigerian President Muhammadou Buhari said. “We are taking our focus on agriculture to the next level,” said Buhari in a tweet. Nigeria has Africa’s largest population standing at more than 160 million people with agriculture representing about 40% […]
Clean Technology Fund approves $20 million investment for AfDB-sponsored Facility for Energy Inclusion The Clean Technology Fund (CTF) one of two multi-donor trust funds within the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) last week approved $20 million for the Facility for Energy Inclusion (FEI), a facility sponsored by the African Development Bank to provide sustainable financing for […]
There is new hope for the oil industry in Congo as the recent onshore discovery made in the Delta de la Cuvette indicates that the deposits could produce up to 359 million barrels of oil, or 983,000 bopd, from this central province. Congo’s current production stands at over 330,000 bopd according to OPEC’s latest figures. […]
Hundreds of thousands of people starving in South Sudan will receive lifesaving food and water, courtesy of the UK aid. Minister for Africa, Andrew Stephenson, announced an extra £18 million of UK aid on his first visit, in his new role, to South Sudan. The visit started Monday. Andrew Stephenson who held talks Tuesday […]
Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) organized lately in Accra, an information session about Impulse, a startup acceleration program, sponsored by OCP Group and its subsidiary OCP Africa. The program supports startups working in the fields of Agritech, biotechnologies, nanotechnologies and mining technologies. It has been designed in collation with MassChallenge, a global startup acceleration […]
The US “Prosper Africa” program, designed by the Trump Administration, to replace the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), would be operational by 2025. Prosper Africa aligns with the Trump administration’s Africa strategy, introduced by National Security Adviser John Bolton last December. It aims to promote prosperity, security, and stability in US-Africa relations, and […]
Ebola is “no longer incurable” as experimental drugs showed survival rates of as much as 90% in a clinical trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to scientists and health authorities in Congo, two experimental drugs – an antibody cocktail called REGN-EB3 developed by Regeneron and a monoclonal antibody called mAb114 – will now […]
Cairo-based Arab Industrialization Organization (AOI), a structure owned by the Egyptian government, has announced a plan to build solar power plants in seven African countries to reduce the energy deficit on the continent. AOI will develop renewable energies and reduce energy shortages in Uganda, Congo, Tanzania, Eritrea, Somalia and South Sudan. Solar plants in these […]
Lesotho will launch an energy investment and diplomacy drive at the Africa Oil & Power 2019 conference in Cape Town scheduled October 9-11. “Through the Africa Oil & Power conference, the Ministry of Energy aims to significantly raise the profile of Lesotho in the international and pan-African energy dialogue, to promote Lesotho’s petroleum and […]