Honourable Sabur Oluwa Akanbi

Zambia has reached its 2026 target of 1,000MW of solar, with 1,027MW now installed, the government told the Energy Forum for Africa in Lusaka. At the same forum, Axian signed a power purchase agreement with Africa GreenCo for the 200MW Kudu plant, whose output will be sold across the Southern African Power Pool.

Zimbabwe is replacing unsolicited power project bids with competitive tendering, and the framework behind it is being built with World Bank technical assistance covering transaction advisers, model bidding documents and a pilot procurement of around 370MW across the Ministry, ZETDC and the regulator.

The Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority has finalised the technical marketing architecture for its 2026 offshore licensing round, offering global explorers a dense subsurface data package across the Liberia and Harper basins ahead of the upcoming infrastructure deal rooms in Cape Town.

The US International Development Finance Corporation will make more direct equity investments in Africa, including in critical minerals, its regional managing director for Africa, Vibhuti Jain, has told Reuters. The DFC already has more than $14bn committed across the continent, with over $3bn of it in critical minerals.

Yinson Production has finalised an infrastructure modification agreement for the floating production storage and offloading asset operating in Ghanaian waters to expand technical capacity for domestic thermal plants.

Egypt's petroleum minister Karim Badawi and Cypriot energy minister Michael Damianos have pressed to speed up the work connecting the Cronos field to Egypt's infrastructure, after Eni and TotalEnergies took a final investment decision in July. Badawi told an East Mediterranean Gas Forum roundtable in Greece that the partnership had reached projects on the ground.

TANESCO and CRDB Bank have launched a scheme in which the bank pays the TZS27,000 connection fee for households in rural Tanzania, and urban customers can spread their connection costs in instalments. Vice President Deogratius Ndejembi attended the signing in Dar es Salaam on 2 October.

The Institute for the Regulation of Petroleum Derivatives has confirmed a 13,000 barrel per day surge in domestic crude supply to the Luanda plant, marking a significant step in Sonangol's push to curb refined product import reliance while commercial testing begins at the new Cabinda facility.