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Conditions Met for TotalEnergies to Restart Work on Mozambique LNG project
Oct 3, 2025 (Credit: TotalEnergies) Mozambique President Daniel Chapo said on Thursday that the conditions have been met for French energy company TotalEnergies to lift force majeure on its $20 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the...
Eni sanctions second FLNG development offshore Mozambique
Italian major Eni has reached the final investment decision (FID) to develop the Coral North FLNG project, deepwater offshore Cabo Delgado, north of Mozambique. The project will put into production the gas volumes from the northern part of Area...
Employers warned against locking workers inside factories
EMPLOYERS have been warned against locking employees inside business premises. The warning was issued by the Department of Employment and Labour following this week’s joint inter-departmental inspection blitz at clothing and textile factories on...
Eni signs second floating LNG unit off the coast of Mozambique
The Italian energy company Eni, along with its partners, signed off on a project on Thursday to build a floating platform for liquefied gas, Coral North, in the waters of Mozambique. This will make that country Africa's top LNG producer. In the...
Despite GDP uptick for South Africa, local challenges need to be addressed – BMI
While South Africa’s GDP is expected to edge up to 1.1% this year from 0.6% in 2024, on the back of energy and transport reforms, underlying challenges, such as weak export activity and contracting fixed investment, still remain. This was...
The GGI: An era for strengthening Africa's global presence
A business manager from Hunan Modern Agriculture International Development Co. Ltd. checks the growth of chili peppers with a local staff member at the Gashora Farm in Nyagatare District, Rwanda, on May 22 (XINHUA) The Global Governance Initiative...
FirstRand bullish on uranium, oil and gas
Chamwe Kaira FirstRand Limited believes that Namibia’s uranium and oil and gas sectors are well positioned for a rebound. The firm said that while low inflation should help keep interest rates down, fiscal strain from declining Southern African...
Natural Gas: Asia’s LNG Premium Returns as Demand Divergence Reshapes Global Flows
Regional price differentials are back as Asia rebuilds inventories and Europe retreats to comfort mode.For much of this year, the natural gas market has projected an unusual calm. Following the turmoil of 2022 and Europe’s frantic dash to secure...
Unicloud Africa Unveils Sovereign Cloud Platform Across 6 Countries
The pan-African cloud platform dedicated to advancing the continent’s digital sovereignty, Unicloud Africa, in its bid to move Africa’s technology ecosystem, has officially launched its enterprise-grade Sovereign Cloud and Artificial Intelligence...
Inside the Case that Should Have Broken Kenya’s Ivory Cartel — and Didn’t
If an ivory seizure could ever be called “quiet,” this was it. By global standards, the haul wasn’t especially large. The 216.76 kilograms of elephant ivory recovered in Nairobi in June 2017 fell short of the 500-kilogram threshold typically used...
Closing the Gap: Managing Journal Entry Risk in the Record-to-Report Process
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All set for the 8th Nedbank Tour de Great Dyke
THE countdown has begun for one of Zimbabwe’s most prestigious sporting events, the 8th Nedbank Tour de Great Dyke, scheduled to take place from November 6-8, 2025. This annual three-day cycling extravaganza promises to bring together hundreds of...
Emirates Celebrates Three Decades Connecting Kenya to Global Markets
Emirates marked 30 years of operations in Kenya on Thursday, having transported over 6.6 million passengers on more than 34,250 flights between Nairobi and Dubai since the inaugural service in October 1995, positioning the East African nation as...
Cellphone tower battery bandits jailed for 20 years, while vandalism costs MTN R450m
While attacks on cellphone towers have slowed, cellphone network provider MTN says the toll of vandalism on towers still runs into hundreds of millions of rands. MTN said that while the theft of cellphone batteries, sold by criminals to people...
What Shale Gas' Awakening Could Mean
The decision by South Africa to lift its long-standing moratorium on shale gas exploration represents a decisive moment for the country’s energy future. After more than a decade of uncertainty, the Karoo Basin – estimated to hold up to 200...
Illicit financial flows drain Africa’s mineral wealth — Greenpeace
Banele Ginindza|Published 2 hours ago 3min Banele Ginindza Africa is losing billions of dollars every year through illicit financial flows (IFFs) from its mineral sector, undermining the continent’s potential to benefit from the global clean...
Analysts Eye Big Oil's Spending and Acquisition Plans
Big Oil is reporting third-quarter results this week and next. No surprises are expected—Big Oil has been having an eventful year featuring tariffs, sanctions, and glut predictions—and these events will be reflected in financial reports. Yet...
Africa’s AI progress held back by limited internet coverage
From the periphery, it’s easy to assume that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is still far removed from Africa’s realities. But from simple fact-checking tools used by journalists in Mozambique and Uganda, to complex AI-driven revenue systems in South...
Raubex flags 10% to 20% lower earnings for six months to end August 2025
JSE-listed infrastructure development and construction materials supply company Raubex, in a trading statement, says it expects its earnings a share (EPS) and headline earnings a share (HEPS) for the six-month period to August 31 to be between 10%...
BIS Rescinds Biden-Era Firearms Export Rule: Key Regulatory Changes for Exporters
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently released a new final rule effectively rescinding almost all of a Biden-era interim final rule (IFR) on civilian exports of firearms, related ammunition, and firearms...