Ikeoluwa Juliana Ogungbangbe

Ghanaian households and businesses will see higher power and water bills from July 1 after the regulator approved its latest quarterly tariff increase.

Zimbabwe has landed a 25-year deal for a 50-megawatt solar plant near Chegutu, a move expected to ease chronic power shortages and draw fresh investment.

Nigeria’s Standards Organisation of Nigeria has commissioned a 200-kilowatt solar power system in Lagos, targeting N15 million in monthly energy cost savings.

A study tracking 3,139 African power plants finds fossil fuels will still supply 61 percent of the continent’s electricity by 2030, despite renewable growth.

President Adama Barrow has assured Gambians of stable, uninterrupted electricity within two to three years, saying recent outages stemmed from technical faults now resolved.

Civil society group GALA has given Gambia’s national utility NAWEC a 10-day ultimatum to restore reliable electricity and water after months of damaging outages.

Sahara Group has launched a $5,000 energy journalism fellowship open to African journalists across print, electronic and digital media until October 30, 2026.

Rwanda has set a June 8 cut-off date for land compensation affecting 1,232 households as the 206MW Ruzizi III regional hydropower project advances.

Nigeria’s gas minister has ordered regulators and security agencies to clamp down on marketers hoarding and diverting LPG as cooking gas prices climb sharply.