Xinye Special Steel has started production at a 180,000-ton-per-year aluminum plant in Ethiopia. The plant will import raw materials but produce aluminum locally for the Ethiopian market. A separate ...

Nigeria says poor addressing costs the economy up to $60.2 million a year. The new system will give localities unique identifiers to make addresses easier to locate. Authorities expect it to support ...

Nigeria could account for nearly 35% of the region’s off-grid solar installations by 2035. Falling equipment costs and new business models are making solar increasingly competitive with diesel. High ...

A new UN mechanism puts community benefits alongside Africa’s push for local mineral processing. Existing revenue-sharing systems have faced governance and community participation problems. The next ...

The policy will set standards for teaching materials, teacher and interpreter training, certification and accessible assessments. Ghana already has a harmonized sign language curriculum, but shortages ...

NexMetals raised Selebi’s mineral resources by 72%, adding to progress across Botswana’s copper, nickel and cobalt projects. Manganese and rare earth projects are widening the country’s ...

The Lagos State project pairs a 200-hectare bioethanol plant site with 15,000 hectares of cassava production across four states. Nigeria wants to build a cassava-based bioethanol value chain that ...

Sasol will supply its Fischer-Tropsch technology to SkyNRG's Project Wigeon sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in Washington State, marking its third SAF project since July. The project aims to ...

Rwanda's trade deficit widened 15.66% year-on-year to $877.81 million in the second quarter of 2026 as imports continued to outpace exports. Imports rose 28.78% to $1.61 billion, while domestic ...

Kafue Solar project in Zambia, allowing construction to begin nearly eight years after development started. FMO and British International Investment (BII) are financing the project, while state-owned ...

Portugal has made 20,000 job openings available to Angolan workers through the Portuguese Institute for Employment and Vocational Training (IEFP). The two governments plan to channel recruitment ...

South Africa ended its four-year prospective membership in July 2026 and declined full Paris Club membership, choosing instead to revert to ad hoc participant status. National Treasury explicitly ...