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Nigeria transmission equipment stranded for 20 years leaves port in a first batch of 98

14th November, 2026 · Updated: 9th November, 2026

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Nigeria transmission equipment stranded for 20 years leaves port in a first batch of 98

Nigeria has cleared the first 98 of more than 300 containers of transmission equipment that sat at its ports for nearly 20 years, and the Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, says the government is working to release the remaining 200-plus without further delay.

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Gabon’s presidency has put the cost of reviving the Mabounié niobium and rare earths deposit at about $2bn, after UAE-backed New Energy Metals and its subsidiary Dusk Gabon presented a technical study to President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema in China, with construction targeted for 2027 and processing planned inside the country.

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Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty pressed in Tripoli on 7 November for faster progress on gas pipeline links with Libya and on refining Libyan crude in Egypt, and Libya’s acting Minister of Oil and Gas, Khalifa Abdulsadek, says he will take the technical talks to Cairo.

South Africa electricity market reform draws a $503.75m AfDB loan

The African Development Bank has approved $503.75 million for South Africa’s Infrastructure Governance Reform Program, aimed at drawing private capital into electricity transmission, as a licensed market operator inside the National Transmission Company South Africa prepares the ground for 10% of electricity transactions to be traded wholesale by December 2027.

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Nigeria transmission equipment stranded for 20 years leaves port in a first batch of 98

Nigeria has cleared the first 98 of more than 300 containers of transmission equipment that sat at its ports for nearly 20 years, and the Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, says the government is working to release the remaining 200-plus without further delay.

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Mabounié niobium project in Gabon is priced at $2bn for a 2027 start

Gabon’s presidency has put the cost of reviving the Mabounié niobium and rare earths deposit at about $2bn, after UAE-backed New Energy Metals and its subsidiary Dusk Gabon presented a technical study to President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema in China, with construction targeted for 2027 and processing planned inside the country.

Egypt and Libya gas pipeline talks head to Cairo after Tripoli meeting

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty pressed in Tripoli on 7 November for faster progress on gas pipeline links with Libya and on refining Libyan crude in Egypt, and Libya’s acting Minister of Oil and Gas, Khalifa Abdulsadek, says he will take the technical talks to Cairo.

South Africa electricity market reform draws a $503.75m AfDB loan

The African Development Bank has approved $503.75 million for South Africa’s Infrastructure Governance Reform Program, aimed at drawing private capital into electricity transmission, as a licensed market operator inside the National Transmission Company South Africa prepares the ground for 10% of electricity transactions to be traded wholesale by December 2027.

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EXCLUSIVE: NMGS’s Rose Ndong points investors to Nigeria’s lithium processing chain

Rose Ndong, President of the Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society (NMGS), tells ENN for its women’s voices series that lithium processing is Nigeria’s most investable opportunity now that unprocessed minerals can no longer be exported, and sets out how a single approval window could move projects from licence to construction faster.

At Parys, Ilikwa Solar’s second phase adds 27MW for South African business

Mainstream South Africa has reached financial close on a 27MW second phase at Ilikwa Solar in the Free State, with Investec again holding 30%, and the extension will take the plant to 77MW for businesses buying on five to 10-year contracts when it starts operating in late 2027.

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EXCLUSIVE: Europe’s carbon border could open a market for CCS in Africa

John McLaughlin of Storegga argues that the near-term case for carbon capture and storage in Africa rests on exporters facing the EU’s carbon border, with North African stores for southern European emissions and credits for carbon removal as later possibilities, and sets out what governments can do now to prepare.