Energy, manufacturing and agriculture — including breaking African oil finds.
Greenpeace Africa is demanding Kenya halt approvals for Aliko Dangote's 700,000-barrel-a-day Lamu refinery until an independent environmental review is published, setting up a fight between a mega-project with presidential backing and one of the continent's most fragile coastlines.
NNPC and Seplat signed a 15-year, 200-million-cubic-feet-a-day gas supply deal with UTM Offshore, the bankability milestone that clears the way for a final investment decision on Nigeria's first indigenous floating LNG project.
Turkey's drillship Cagri Bey is three months into drilling Somalia's Curad-1 well, the country's first-ever offshore test — a high-risk, high-reward bid to unlock reserves estimated at 30 billion barrels.
A 1,000-foot, seven-reservoir light-oil find offshore Nigeria is the clearest signal yet that the indigenous consortium that bought Shell's onshore empire can actually explore, not just extract.
The Dangote refinery — now running at its full 650,000-barrel-a-day capacity and reshaping Nigeria from fuel importer to net exporter — is preparing a landmark share sale that would test whether African capital markets can price a $50 billion asset.
Uganda's $50 million Amari project is the first independent transmission project in Africa to reach financial close and enter construction. The line itself is small; the private-capital model behind it may be how the continent finally builds the grid its generation boom cannot reach without.
Uganda's Lake Albert project is set to deliver first oil in 2026, part of a $41 billion African upstream surge that will see the continent host 40% of the world's high-impact exploration wells this year.
