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Zimbabwe Baboons Take Zimbabwe Radio Station Off Air

Zimbabwe Baboons Take Zimbabwe Radio Station Off Air

Forget Zimbabwe’s oppressive media laws, this time baboons were to blame for taking a radio station off air. Staff at YA FM in the mining town Zvishavane, south of Harare, believed they had been hit by a power cut when the station fell into silence earlier this week, station head Munyaradzi Hwengwere told dpa on […]

British Oil Firm Accused Of Corruption In Somalia Exploration Deal

British Oil Firm Accused Of Corruption In Somalia Exploration Deal

A British oil exploration firm has been accused of corrupt payments to government officials in Somalia in return for rights to explore offshore for hydrocarbons, a claim the company denies. No one knows exactly how much oil and gas lies off Somalia’s coast, but some industry experts estimate the figure at 110 billion barrels. In […]

The Top 10 Fastest Growing Economies In Africa, Number 1 Will Surprise You

The Top 10 Fastest Growing Economies In Africa, Number 1 Will Surprise You

Africa is preparing to take its place in a future global economy which will see the earth’s population reach 10 billion by 2050. As people are saying, Africa is where the ball is bouncing right now. The continent is currently experiencing an average economic growth of between 5 to 8% a year. It’s the youngest […]

Ease Power Cuts, Made Tells Zesa – Zimbabwe Agriculture Minister

Ease Power Cuts, Made Tells Zesa – Zimbabwe Agriculture Minister

Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph Made, has appealed to zesa Holdings for lenience on electricity power cuts that are affecting farmers in most parts of the country. He said his ministry was engaging the Ministry of Energy and Power Development to see how the situation could be improved to save crops under […]

Angola Hands Over CPLP Energy Regulators Presidency to Cape Verde

Angola Hands Over CPLP Energy Regulators Presidency to Cape Verde

The Republic of Angola, through the Institute for the Regulation of Electricity Sector (IRSE), has terminated the presidency of the Association of Energy Regulators of the Portuguese Speaking Countries (RELOP), a rotary term commenced in 2013. Speaking to Angop in Luanda, Marino Lemos Bulls, from the IRSE Legal Office, the country has been replaced by […]

Power Deficit Is a Wake Up Call for Zambia – ERB

Power Deficit Is a Wake Up Call for Zambia – ERB

The Energy Regulation Board (ERB) says the power deficit the country is facing is a wake-up call on the need to come up with cost reflective electricity tariffs. ERB Executive Director Langiwe Lungu says the electricity crisis is also what the country needed to begin to appreciate other alternative sources of energy. Lungu says the […]

Liquified petroleum gas (LPG) exporters in South Africa and East Africa have started rationing the commodity

Liquified petroleum gas (LPG) exporters in South Africa and East Africa have started rationing the commodity

Liquified petroleum gas (LPG) exporters in South Africa and East Africa have started rationing the commodity because of the growing demand in the region. Oxyzam Limited chief executive officer Karthi Keyan said the supplies from South Africa and East Africa had been reduced. He said this in an interview in Lusaka yesterday. Oxyzam is a […]

Huge Gas Field Discovered Off Egyptian Coast By Italy’s Eni

Huge Gas Field Discovered Off Egyptian Coast By Italy’s Eni

Italian energy group Eni says it has found one of the world’s largest natural gas fields off Egypt’s coast. The company said the area was 1,450m (4,757 feet) beneath the surface and covered 100 sq km (39 sq miles). It could hold as much as 30 trillion cubic feet of gas, or 5.5 billion barrels […]

President Jacob Zuma Apologises To Fired Former Eskom Boss Tshediso Matona For Bad Treatment

President Jacob Zuma Apologises To Fired Former Eskom Boss Tshediso Matona For Bad Treatment

President Jacob Zuma has apologised to former Eskom boss Tshediso Matona for the bad treatment he received when he was suspended from the power utility early this year, according to Mail & Guardian sources in the presidency and government. In an unprecedented move, Zuma is said to have personally expressed regret to Matona in a […]

President Buhari Ends Cashflow For Corrupt Nigerian Leaders

President  Buhari Ends Cashflow For Corrupt Nigerian Leaders

FORMER Niger Delta militant leaders have begun toning down their millionaire lifestyles over recent weeks amid signs that the large sums of cash they were receiving during the regime of former president Dr Goodluck Jonathan has now dried up. Wooed by Dr Jonathan as part of his amnesty programme, militant leaders were offered monthly payments […]

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