Dangote Breaks Ground on $16 Billion Kenya Refinery Despite Unresolved Land Dispute
A Kenyan court ordered the disputed Lamu site frozen pending an October hearing brought by 133 residents who say the land is ancestral farmland, but the ceremony went ahead anyway.
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Zambia Builds Out Solar and Thermal Power Ahead of a Feared Repeat El Nino Drought
After a 2024 drought gutted hydropower output and triggered nationwide blackouts, the state utility says more than 1,000 new megawatts of solar capacity should keep the lights on this time around.
Energy & Resources
East Africa's Cross-Border Crude Pipeline Nears Completion, First Oil Targeted for June
The 1,447-kilometer EACOP line linking Uganda's oilfields to Tanzania's coast is more than 98 percent built, with heated, fiber-optic-monitored pipe designed to move the region's waxy crude to export at last.