The new year could well be marked by increased power cuts in Tanzania. There is no lack of major projects but the short and medium-term picture is marred by institutional and management problems as well as immediate shortages that both [.
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The Burundi gold refining company Affimet, which enjoys free trade status, has come under fire again in the fall-out from [...]
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The government intends to go further than opening its mining sector to private interests during its World Bank-backed programme covering [...]
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While an invitation to tender for the purchase of the [...]
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The European Investment Bank has confirmed its participation in bankrolling the rehabilitation of the pipeline linking the port and refinery [...]
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Last year's upheaval in Ivory Coast's electricity-gas projects has produced the highly unsual result of Electricity de France and SAUR [...]
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In late December the International Finance Corp. (IFC) confirmed it was ready to offer loans for the development of the [...]
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Nigerian oil minister Don Etiebet signed an agreement in early January with his counterparts from Benin, Togo and Ghana to [...]
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In late December the European Investment Bank announced it was offering Zambia an 18 million Ecus ($22 million) loan to [...]
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Crews from two French LNG tankers, Tellier and Descartes (40,000 and 50,000 cu.m.) refused to put in at Skikda to [...]
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Finally, the drillship Nedrill 1 will drill its first well [...]
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Operating in its joint venture with BP, Statoil has confirmed [...]
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Initially decided some months ago, the buy-in by the South [...]
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In forecast made in late 1994 on Congo's budget receipts, [...]
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Sasol's tender for a floating rig for its well planned [...]
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Agip began development drilling as planned at the end of [...]
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Preliminary talks will be held by the end of January [...]
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The six wells planned by Walter International with its joint [...]
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UMC has extended its contract with Wilrig's semi Treasure Searcher [...]
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A plant operated by the Petrochem company in the free [...]
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Staff at the Société Ivoirienne de Raffinage walked off the [...]
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As the government and UNITA move to the negotiating table to convert Angola's cease-fire into a full-scale truce Compania Nacional [...]
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The rise in the level of Lake Volta behind the Akosombo dam in November enabled the Volta River Authority (VRA) [...]
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Tanesco has been caught up in the footdragging surrounding the decision taken in 1993 to open the power sector to [...]
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The long-planned privatization of the Société d'Electricite et d'Eau du Gabon (SEEG) seems to be still running into major obstacles [...]
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The Haut Zaire division of the Société Nationale d'Electricité (SNEL) [...]
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The Opec Fund for International Developmewnt has approved a small [...]
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The Portuguese companies Quintas e Quintas and Solidal have jointly [...]
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Electricidade de Mocambique (EDM) has just issued an invitation to [...]
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Canada has agreed to put up the money to ensure [...]
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