For several years, political tensions between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt have been escalating in a conflict over the near-complete Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd)...
Sebastian Sterl 19 Apr 2021
In the early years of African independence, hydroelectricity offered the promise of modernity and development...
Roger Gocking 24 Mar 2021
Energy Minister Jeff Radebe's vague promise that South Africa's long-overdue energy blueprint, the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), will be "concluded imminently" did, however, clearly indicate that coal would still play a prominent role in the country's energy mix...
Nicci Botha 15 May 2019
Africa's longest river the Nile runs through 11 countries. One of them is Ethiopia which contributes about 85% of the Nile water flowing to Sudan and Egypt...
Shimelis Dessu 27 Feb 2019
After more than three decades of talk about the potential of building green, we've still failed to change the way we design and construct buildings...
Meg Holden and Rebecca Holt 6 Feb 2019
Climate change is going to have huge consequences all over the world, especially in Africa...
Kate Gannon, & Declan Conway 5 Dec 2018
The naysayers have long held that renewables are too unpredictable for us to rely on them totally to supply energy...
With the demand for energy expected to increase substantially to 2040 globally, Africa is no exception...
Danette Breitenbach 21 Feb 2018
Conservationists believe that part of $150m offered by the World Bank for boosting tourism in the southern circuit can be used to mitigate effects of economic projects planned within the Selous Game Reserve...
Growers in the Elgin, Grabouw, Vyeboom and Villiersdorp valleys have made a voluntary water donation of 10 million cubic meters...
A Chinese boom in solar panel installation last year helped drive global investment in renewable clean energy technology to record levels, a new study showed Tuesday, 16 January...
BLANTRYE - Large parts of Malawi have been plunged into darkness as water levels at the country's main hydro power plant fell to critical levels due to a severe drought, the electricity company...
The Pantanal in central South America may not be as globally famous as the Amazon rainforest, but it has the continent's highest concentration of wildlife...
Lauren Crabb, Anna Laing, Bronwen Whitney, Carlos 10 Nov 2017
The Transaqua Project is a big, ambitious initiative to replenish the waters of Lake Chad, a fresh water inland lake in Central Africa...
Adegboyega Adeniran and Katherine Daniell 6 Oct 2017
More than 300 million people rely on the waters of the River Nile...
Richard Kyle Paisley 29 Aug 2017
While not downplaying the suffering in the afflicted areas, there is at least good news to report on agricultural output elsewhere on the African continent, which should be powerful enough to meaningfully raise economic growth...
Steve Johnson 8 May 2017
In the months ahead, the Kariba Dam hydroelectric scheme must deal with the twin challenges of not holding enough water on the one hand and too much of it on the other...
Tom Nevin 18 Jan 2017
Ethiopia on Saturday, 17 December, inaugurated a hydroelectric dam that aims to double the country's electricity output, but which critics say is a threat to locals and a UNESCO-listed lake in Kenya...
Morocco, Singapore and India are investing heavily in the abundant power of the sun...
Emile Uys 6 Dec 2016
With Fashionomics, the African Development Bank plans to raise the profile of African fashion and textiles on the international stage...
PPC is spending $200m on expanding its production facilities in Zimbabwe by 2020 as the nation's cement market evolves from mostly cash-in-hand sales for home building and renovation to renewed maintenance spending on national infrastructure...
Mark Allix 7 Jul 2015
PPC is spending $200m on expanding its production facilities in Zimbabwe by 2020 as the nation's cement market evolves from...
Mark Allix 7 Jul 2015
Ghana's economic growth rate is expected to pick up again next year after two years of slowdown following the country's stellar 7% growth in 2013. But this success has come at a price...
Kwasi Addo Appeaning 3 Jul 2015
The Mercedes-Benz S 500 PLUG-IN HYBRID's high environmental compatibility has now also been confirmed by the inspectors at the TÜV Süd technical inspection authority in Stuttgart...
Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc. has released its whitepaper entitled Political Risks in Sub-Saharan Africa - a view from the Power Sector which argues that energy is the 'oxygen' of an economy, and examines the effects of political risk on key power projects.
The World Bank committed a record US$14.7bn in its fiscal year to June to support economic growth and better development prospects in Africa despite uncertain economic conditions in the rest of the global economy.
According to the Southern African Alternative Energy Association (SAAEA) blog, hydroelectric power is one of the oldest and best established sources of renewable energy. Lately, small-scale run-of-river hydro schemes have been gaining traction in many developing countries, especially in rural areas. Hydropower constitutes the world's largest source of renewable electricity, having contributed nearly 16% of total electrical power generation in 2011.