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Egypt approved Kemet’s land agreements in February for 2,000MW of solar and a 2,000MWh battery at Nag Hammadi, with the power bought in local currency. By April the state buyer had signed for four Kemet schemes due in 2027, a different model from the dollar contract behind Scatec’s Obelisk.

Patrick Okigbo III, Founder and Principal Partner of the Abuja advisory firm Nextier, once advised the Presidency on reforming Nigeria’s electricity industry. Speaking to ENN, he argues that investors often misread Nigeria as a single market, and that the clearest sign the reforms since 2023 have worked will be investors coming back a second time.

The National Geographic Society and De Beers Group have renewed their Okavango Eternal partnership for another five years, announced in New York on 24 September. Botswana’s president and ministers from Angola and Namibia used the occasion to form an alliance across a basin whose water supplies more than a million people.