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DRC
Jean Mbuyu

A lawyer by training and a former human rights activist in his native Katanga region during the Mobutu era, Jean [...]

Published on 08.01.2003 at 10:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Canada
STRANGE RIDGEPOINTE CONTRACT

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Canada
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On Sept. 29 Congo president Laurent Kabila signed a decree dated Oct. 1 that approved a mining accord between the [...]

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Canada
GECAMINES DEPENDS HEAVILY ON INGA

The most eye-catching effect of the fall of the Inga hydro-electric dams to anti-Kabila forces was power cuts and shortage [...]

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Zimbabwe
ZESA CONFIRMS PROJECTS

The Zimbabwe Electric Supply Authority (ZESA) last week unveiled a 20-year, $2.8 billion plan to build up its electricity network. [...]

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Spotlight | Zimbabwe
POWER III UNDERWAY

The World Bank was expected on Jan. 18 to give a green light to a $90 million loan to the Zimbabwe Electric Supply Authority for its Power III project. The programme will get underway in step with the institutional Zesa [.

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Zimbabwe
PRICES TO CLIMB

Basing its projections on the 1991-92 financial year (9,250 GWh), ZESA predicts that its sales will rise by 17% by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.01.1994

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
SECOND WIND FOR ZESA ?

The Zesa Reform Programme (ZRP) that has begun under the aegis of the World Bank looks like leading to a major restructuring or even ultimately to what would be at least a partial privatization of Zimbabwe's electricity sector.

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Africa
HOPES

World demand for uranium will rise from 53,500 to 62,000 tons by the year 2000 and then remain stable, with [...]

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Mozambique, Zimbabwe
TENDER FOR INTERCONNECTION

The EDM-ZESA steering committee has issued a call to tender, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.03.1993

Spotlight | Southern Africa
HYDROELECTRIC COLLAPSE

Southern African power companies are being forced to make ever-increasing power cuts because of low water levels due to the unprecedented drought that has gripped the south-east corner of the continent this year. In Tanzania, the Tanzania Electric Supply Corp.

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Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

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Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

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Jean Mbuyu

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Canada
STRANGE RIDGEPOINTE CONTRACT

Canada
REBELS UPHOLD MINING RIGHTS?

Canada
GECAMINES DEPENDS HEAVILY ON INGA

Zimbabwe
ZESA CONFIRMS PROJECTS

Spotlight | Southern Africa
SOUTHERN AFRICA GRID TAKES SHAPE

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
POWER III UNDERWAY

Zimbabwe
PRICES TO CLIMB

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
SECOND WIND FOR ZESA ?

Africa
HOPES

Mozambique, Zimbabwe
TENDER FOR INTERCONNECTION

Spotlight | Southern Africa
HYDROELECTRIC COLLAPSE

Zimbabwe
INTERCONNECTIONS: NEW ACCORDS WITH ESKOM

Zimbabwe
USHEWOKUNZE FIRED

Mozambique, Zimbabwe
INTER-CONNECTION ACCORD

Southern Africa, ZAIRE

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Guinea Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

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Canada STRANGE RIDGEPOINTE CONTRACT

Canada REBELS UPHOLD MINING RIGHTS?

Canada GECAMINES DEPENDS HEAVILY ON INGA

Zimbabwe ZESA CONFIRMS PROJECTS

Spotlight | Southern Africa SOUTHERN AFRICA GRID TAKES SHAPE

Spotlight | Zimbabwe POWER III UNDERWAY

Zimbabwe PRICES TO CLIMB

Spotlight | Zimbabwe SECOND WIND FOR ZESA ?

Africa HOPES

Mozambique, Zimbabwe TENDER FOR INTERCONNECTION

Spotlight | Southern Africa HYDROELECTRIC COLLAPSE

Zimbabwe INTERCONNECTIONS: NEW ACCORDS WITH ESKOM

Zimbabwe USHEWOKUNZE FIRED

Mozambique, Zimbabwe INTER-CONNECTION ACCORD

Southern Africa, ZAIRE

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Guinea
Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

DRC
Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

DRC
Jean Mbuyu

Canada
STRANGE RIDGEPOINTE CONTRACT

Canada
REBELS UPHOLD MINING RIGHTS?

Canada
GECAMINES DEPENDS HEAVILY ON INGA

Zimbabwe
ZESA CONFIRMS PROJECTS

Spotlight | Southern Africa
SOUTHERN AFRICA GRID TAKES SHAPE

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
POWER III UNDERWAY

Zimbabwe
PRICES TO CLIMB

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
SECOND WIND FOR ZESA ?

Africa
HOPES

Mozambique, Zimbabwe
TENDER FOR INTERCONNECTION

Spotlight | Southern Africa
HYDROELECTRIC COLLAPSE

Zimbabwe
INTERCONNECTIONS: NEW ACCORDS WITH ESKOM

Zimbabwe
USHEWOKUNZE FIRED

Mozambique, Zimbabwe
INTER-CONNECTION ACCORD