Ikeoluwa Juliana Ogungbangbe

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.

Nigeria’s presidential CNG initiative says over 120,000 vehicles have converted to compressed natural gas as the government pushes it as a cheaper petrol alternative.

The ECOWAS Parliament adopted a landmark joint committee report in Dakar, pushing mini-grids and renewable energy to electrify West Africa’s rural communities by 2030.

Daystar Power Group has installed 6.884 megawatts of solar power across four Nestle manufacturing facilities in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Senegal.

Nigeria’s LPG retailers say US-Iran tensions and global supply disruptions are pushing cooking gas prices higher, hurting millions who switched to cleaner energy.

Nigeria spent $1.39bn importing foreign crude in Q1 2026, a 309% surge, even as the Dangote refinery scales up domestic output.

Liberia’s LEC is scaling back power imports from Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea after gaining 42 new megawatts from domestic sources.