How long are we in Africa going to use our hardships as excuses not to move forward?
Over the last 30 days President Samia Suluhu Hassan has become the most important woman in the African energy industry. She has taken some of the most courageous steps in rebooting Tanzania’s energy sector and economy. The signing of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline with President Yoweri Museveni of...
Total’s ‘force majeure’ action on Maputo calls for dialogue, firewall against terror
We are disappointed about Total’s recent decision to declare force majeure on its Mozambique LNG Project. While the African Energy Chamber stands in solidarity with Mozambique and Total all energy investors, we believe the declaration of force majeure could have been prevented and comes prematurely. We encourage all parties involved...
Oil pipeline: Uganda, Tanzania have new policies to protect national interests
Facts and truth can be stubborn for those who believe foreign aid, begging and immigration to Europe should be the only way out for African youth. Of course, these jobs won’t all last forever. Many of them will involve construction or related activities, and these will naturally come to an...
Greenpeace, Western anti-Africa energy groups wrong on EA crude oil pipeline
If someone were to put me on the spot and ask me to name an environmentalist group, I’d probably blurt out the first thing that comes to mind, Greenpeace. There are obvious reasons for this: Greenpeace has been around for more than 50 years, and it has done a masterful...
We owe early HIV fighters gratitude for changing how we respond to health crises
It’s been just over a year since the World Health Organisation declared a worldwide pandemic – on March 11, 2020 – and only a few months since Pfizer and BioNTech released data showing their vaccine was highly effective at preventing Covid-19, with other companies following soon after. Merely weeks after...
Dear Presidents Museveni, Suluhu: Your ill-advised pipeline project only benefit Total
As you were signing the long-awaited contract that will finally allow the construction of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline – Africa’s longest crude oil pipeline – hundreds of young people, activists, environmentalists and ordinary citizens from all over the world, including representatives from East Africa, were gathered online for...
Africa’s oil and gas sector needs more investments to power its economies
In the past 12 months, the African energy sector has seen several encouraging developments – in the form of both Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and strategic partnerships – that have advanced the sustainable development of its natural resources. In fact, despite a global downturn in investment in 2020, FDI flows...
As world wobbles under Covid weight, computer vision syndrome hits
There’s no way around it: Since the pandemic began, people around the world, of all ages, are spending lots more time looking at screens. This is particularly true for children, as many schools shifted from the classroom to the computer. A survey conducted by Ipsos and the Global Myopia Awareness...
Africa’s ‘Blue Economy’ remains untapped, set to be in hands of foreign powers
African governments have the ability to significantly impact the investment environment and investors will look to the way they are planning, regulating, owning and operating their ports. They will also take the country’s stability, security and perceived corruption levels into account. Experienced investors will certainly consider how individual governments have...
Too many regional economic communities, are they really helpful to African trade?
Africa is a complex continent. She is an eclectic mix of authoritarian regimes – where leaders have been in power for many decades; countries that are attempting to make their way towards democracy – even if progress is incremental and slow. There are others that have had a stronger semblance...
