OPEC Fund contributes to co-financing Africa’s largest onshore wind power project
Staff Writer, WAM (Emirates News Agency) Arab Sheikh with traditional Emirati clothes looking for the energy industry and standing beside a wind turbines farm power station at sunset time. Image used for illustrative purpose. Getty ImagesGetty Images VIENNA: The OPEC Fund for International Development (the OPEC Fund) is co-financing Africa’s largest onshore wind power project, contributing US$30
Chevron also comes up short in Namibia energy exploration
Staff Writer, Bizcommunity.com FILE PHOTO: Chevron oil exploration drilling site near Midland, Texas, U.S. August 22, 2019. Picture taken August 22, 2019. REUTERS/Jessica Lutz/File Photo Image used for illustrative purpose.Reuters Images Chevron said it did not find commercial hydrocarbon reserves in an exploration well in Namibia’s Orange Basin. The US oil producer said the well called
How floods, explosions, stampedes, struck Nigeria in 2024
Mukhtar Y. Madobi, Nigerian Tribune Residents walk as they leave the flooded areas in Maiduguri, northern Borno state, Nigeria September 15, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Kingimi. Image used for illustrative purpose.Reuters AS 2025 begins, it is crucial to reflect on the significant events that shaped Nigeria’s emergency and response sector over the past year. The year 2024 was
Zimbabwe anticipates lithium prices to justify $270 mln project with China
By Nyasha Chingono Men work as Zimbabwe’s re-elected President Emmerson Mnangagwa commissions a Chinese owned Sabi Star lithium processing plant in Buhera, Zimbabwe August 31, 2023. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights HARARE, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s state-owned Kuvimba Mining House expects to finalise this month a deal agreed with two Chinese companies as it sticks with its $270
New suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania kills eight – WHO
Alfred Lasteck – BBC News, Dodoma Hundreds of people have died from the virus in recent years, almost all in Africa The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in north-west Tanzania, saying that at least eight people have already been killed by the disease. On
Africa: Copper could cure Murray & Roberts cold after De Beers diamond cough
Lindsey Schutters, Bizcommunity.com Image used for illustrative purposes. October 07, 2019, Roscoe, Illinois. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty ImagesGetty Images/Getty Images Industry giant De Beers’ recent announcement of a production decrease of 25% in Q3 2024 has sent ripples throughout the mining industry, with major contractor Murray & Roberts (M&R) feeling the impact. The diamond miner’s decision