Author name: Godswill Odiong

Home to over 125 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves and 620 trillion cubic feet of gas, Africa’s resource wealth stands at the intersection of global energy security. Not only a solution to advancing industrialization and electrification across the continent, investing in African energy will stabilize global markets, thereby strengthening resilience to global challenges. […]

A Technical Track hosted by pan-African legal and business advisory group, Centurion Law Group, held during the 2023 edition of African Energy Week (AEW) (www.AECWeek.com) – taking place in Cape Town from 16-20 October – explored the legal, regulatory, and tax frameworks throughout Africa. The technical track kicked off with opening remarks by Centurion Law

The African Energy Chamber’s (www.EnergyChamber.org) African Energy Week (AEW) 2023 conference & exhibition officially started on Tuesday in Cape Town, kicking off the week’s discussions and deals. During the electric opening ceremony – sponsored by Kosmos Energy – African energy and petroleum ministers delivered opening remarks, detailing the needs of the continent, the role investment

Energy Invest: Namibia 2023 – the official investment report on the country’s oil, natural gas, power, mining and renewable energy sectors – was officially launched by Namibia’s Minister of Mines and Energy, Tom Alweendo, during the African Energy Week (AEW) conference in Cape Town on Tuesday. Produced by Energy Capital & Power (ECP) and endorsed

Namibia’s Minister of Mines and Energy Tom Alweendo opened a Namibia country spotlight during the first day of African Energy Week (AEW) 2023 – the biggest gathering of energy stakeholders and policymakers on the continent and organized by the voice of the African energy sector, the African Energy Chamber (www.EnergyChamber.org) – in Cape Town on

The 2023 edition of African Energy Week (AEW) –organized by the voice of the African energy sector, the African Energy Chamber (www.EnergyChamber.org)– featured a strategic session hosted by the Former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo, who led discussions on a wide range of topics, including diplomacy, governance, regional stability, and

Day one of the Ninth G20 Parliamentary Summit held in New Delhi (India) took to a positive opening with representatives from Italy, South Africa, Russia, Turkey, Nigeria, and Spain making interventions during the first session on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Showcasing Achievements and Accelerating Progress. Addressing delegates during the first session, the National Council of

As the escalation in the conflict between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) reaches its sixth month today, (15 October 2023), resulting in the deaths of at least 5,000 civilians, more than 12,000 injured, and over 5.7 million people forcibly displaced, Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern

Heightened tensions and the increasingly hostile presence of armed groups in northern Mali are likely to impede the departure of the UN Stabilization Mission there (MINUSMA), the UN said in a note to correspondents issued on Saturday. The peacekeeping mission which for many years has been the deadliest place to serve as a UN ‘blue