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MOZAMBIQUE Politics 04/12/1999

ELECTORAL SCENARIOS

Another mandate for presidential-candidate Joaquim Chissano, whose re-election in the face of competition from rival runner Afonso Dhlakama seemed assured as the December 3-4 presidential election approached, will be sharply influenced by the equilibrium between his FRELIMO (governmental) party and

CAMEROON CHAD Energy 24/11/1999

DOBA VICTIM OF GLOBALIZATION

The Chad government signed a preliminary accord with Vivendi to take over management of the Societe Tchadienne d'Electricitre et d'Eau

ZIMBABWE Energy 29/09/1999

TIGHT TIMING FOR NEW PLAN

The Zimbabwe government and the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) have just submitted a draft of a new System Development

CAMEROON CHAD Energy 29/09/1999

WORLD BANK COVERS ITSELF

With the pipeline project between Doba and Kribi coming up before the board in mid-October (AEM 258) the World Bank

ZIMBABWE 04/09/1999

WORLD BANK FOLLOWS SUIT

Following the IMF's lead, the World Bank will on September 13 present a third structural adjustment credit line for Zimbabwe

CAMEROON CHAD Energy 01/09/1999

THREAT TO PIPELINE LOOMS LARGE

An obstacle to the funding of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline in the form of a U.S. bill named "Demilitarization for Development

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CAMEROON CHAD Energy 02/06/1999

THE LAST BUMPY MILE

Chad president Idriss Deby flew to Washington on May 24 to voice his concern over delays in the Doba-Kribi pipeline project to World Bank president James Wolfensohn. Cautious, Wolfenson met earlier in the morning with representatives from three environmental organizations,

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WEST AFRICA Energy 16/12/1998

LAST OBSTACLES TO GAS PIPELINE

Of the three regional gas or gas-electricity projects that could be completed by the end of the decade in sub-Saharan Africa the West African Gas Pipeline (WAPG) based on reserves in Nigeria, where 2 billion cu.

BENIN Energy 04/11/1998

WORLD BANK LOAN ON WAY

The World Bank affiliate International Development Association will shortly approve

MADAGASCAR Energy 21/10/1998

PRIVATIZATION LOOMS FOR SOLIMA

Ten companies will submit bids when an invitation to tender is issued next week for the privatization of the state-owned

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CAMEROON CHAD Energy 07/10/1998

PIPELINE DELAYED

No fundamental problem appears to stand in the way of an agreement between Cameroon and the World Bank on the Chad-Kribi oil pipeline and the need to protect the environment and foster economic and social development, according to Patrice Mandengabassa,

CAMEROON CHAD Energy 23/09/1998

NEW PIPELINE BARGAINING

The World Bank is to stage new negotiations before the

NIGERIA Energy 26/08/1998

OSO II IN SERVICE

The second phase of the Oso development project centered on the production of NGL has been commissioned. Output began at

TANZANIA Energy 22/07/1998

YEAR 2000 START FOR SONGO SONGO

The financial package for the Songo Songo project will be put together completely at the end of 1998, AEM learned

MADAGASCAR 27/06/1998

PRIVATIZATION TIMETABLES

The privatization programme for Madagascar's public-sector enterprises has just been updated by the World Bank with a new timetable dated

CHAD Energy 24/06/1998

GREENS FRET OVER PIPELINE PLAN

A "summit of the seven poorest countries" organized by the Greens on June 12 in the European Parliament's building in

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AFRICA Energy 24/06/1998

ENVIRONMENT, MARKET APPROACH GAINS GROUND

If Bill Richardson is mostly known for his peacemaking skills as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations – he exercised them with talent in Bosnia and in more controversial fashion in the Congo-Kinshasa imbroglio – his appointment on June 18

SENEGAL Energy 27/05/1998

HYDRO QUEBEC BIDS FOR SENELEC

Hydro Quebec has just confirmed in Dakar that it is in the running to become Senelec's strategic partner following the

CAMEROON CHAD Energy 29/04/1998

PIPELINE CAUGHT IN CROSSFIRE

The Chad-Cameroon oi development and pipeline project that are awaiting the green light for IDA loans - the total was

MADAGASCAR 04/04/1998

SLOWCOACH PRIVATIZATION

The consultant Price Waterhouse who prepared the privatization programme of Solima (petroleum products) according to a cession formula known as

MADAGASCAR 14/03/1998

MAYBE HELP FOR PRIVATIZATION

The World Bank mission which went to Antananarivo last month is insisting that the government must privatize the state-owned banks

CAMEROON CHAD Energy 11/03/1998

PIPELINE WAITS IDA GREEN LIGHT

The Exxon group which operates in Chad's oil project and in the TOTCO and COTCO companies that will operate the

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MADAGASCAR 21/02/1998

WORLD BANK SECRETS

On Madagascar, implementation of the economic reform programme passes by firm spoonfeeding at all stages of local institutions (presidency, prime minister's office, economic ministries, etc) by International Monetary Fund and World Bank representatives. Objective: to neutralize all political interference by

CAMEROON CHAD Energy 28/01/1998

KICKOFF FOR PIPELINE

Work on the pipeline that is to link the Doba oil basin in southern Chad to the future terminal at

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CANADA Energy 10/12/1997

UNDER WORLD BANK'S WATCHFULL EYE

Road repairs around Kinshasa and humanitarian missions were all that Laurent Kabila's government won from the "Friends of the Congo" conference organized under the auspices of the World Bank on Dec. 3-4 in Brussels. The "stabilization and recovery" plan prepared

MADAGASCAR 25/10/1997

GLENCORE PROJECTS

Glencore, a large Swiss-based petroleum trader, recently approached a Paris bank to propose a financial package for Madagascar. The deal

NIGER Energy 19/03/1997

NIGELEC ON THE AUCTION BLOCK

Nigelec has been marked down for IMF-World Bank-type privatization along with the water company SNE and oil storage firm Sonidep.

ETHIOPIA Energy 05/03/1997

CALUB PROJECT UNDERWAY

An Ethiopian company has kicked off a project to extract and process up to 65,000 tons of liquid petroleum products

ETHIOPIA Energy 05/02/1997

TWO STUDIES FOR BEICIP

Ethiopia's energy and mines ministry signed two contracts for studies last month with BEICIP-Franlab, the consultancy and international engineering unit

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AFRICA Energy 05/02/1997

FRANCE'S NARROW GREENHOUSE EFFECT PIPELINE

Forty four projects had been accepted by the end of 1996 or were at an advanced stage in the French Global Environment Fund's (FFEM) pipeline. The projects slated to receive grants from the Fund organized by the Caisse Francaise de

TANZANIA Energy 22/01/1997

LIBERALIZATION HALFWAY HOME

The liberalization of Tanzania's oil industry, which has long been

GABON Energy 18/12/1996

OCELOT LANDS ITS PERMITS

Ocelot Energy won two licences to be operated on a production sharing basis in Gabon following negotiations that were already

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE Energy 18/12/1996

FREE TRADE ZONE IDEA RE-SURFACES

A project to establish a free trade zone in Agulhas

EQUATORIAL GUINEA Energy 18/12/1996

SCRAMBLE AT MALABO

As Equatorial Guinea is a small country with rich oil prospects several big groups are scrambling to install the first

UGANDA 07/12/1996

PROMISES, PROMISES

During the meeting of the World Bank consultative group on Uganda, held in Paris on November 21 and 22, Uganda

NIGERIA Energy 09/10/1996

PRIVATIZATION FOR OIL INDUSTRY?

Nigeria has managed to fend off the threat of oil or other sanctions with for a selective release of jailed

ZAMBIA Energy 09/10/1996

BP AND AGIP MARKETING AFFILIATES PRIVATIZED

The government has completed the privatization of British Petroleum Zambia

ETHIOPIA 20/07/1996

THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

The International Development Association, an affiliate of the World Bank, has begun work on three projects for loans to Ethiopia,

MOZAMBIQUE Energy 29/05/1996

WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE

A Portuguese bid to acquire all or part of the shares of the government and/or Lonrho in the Beira-Harare pipeline

MALI Energy 15/05/1996

TWO IDA LOANS APPROVED

The World Bank has announced approval by the International Development Association (IDA) of a $23 million loan that had been

CONGO Energy 01/05/1996

PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

The timetable will be honored, as with electricity-generation, but the privatization of Congo's downstream oil sector will leave a government

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MOZAMBIQUE 30/03/1996

GET THINGS MOVING

The approaching World Bank consultative group on Mozambique has relaunched the debate on cleaning up Mozambique's state-owned companies. International fund donors are expected to use the Paris meeting (April 17 and 18) to jog the Maputo authorities over their failure

KENYA Energy 27/03/1996

STEP BY STEP REFORMS

A meeting of the consultative group of donors for Kenya held in Paris under the auspices of the World Bank

NIGERIA Energy 03/01/1996

LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

Work is shortly to begin on the liquefaction plant that Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. (NLNG) is to build at

ALGERIA Energy 01/11/1995

WORLD BANK LOAN Free

The World Bank is considering a $75 million loan to

TANZANIA Energy 01/11/1995

AGREEMENT ON SONGO SONGO

After four years of studies and negotiations, an agreement to proceed with the Songo Songo gas and electricity project was

MADAGASCAR Energy 18/10/1995

GOVERNMENT PLANS SELL-OFF

The opening of Madagascar's electricity sector to "private capital" has been underscored in a so-called "outline document for economic policy"

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KENYA Energy 20/09/1995

KENYA POWER SECTOR'S CAUTIOUS ADVANCE

The Kenyan government and the Kenya Power & Lighting Corporation (KPLC) unveiled their energy projects, loan requirements and the reforms they've already undertaken during a conference with donors on Sept. 11-12 in Paris. But no fresh funds were offered and

CONGO Energy 20/09/1995

PRIVATIZATION BY NEXT JUNE

AEM understands that the World Bank is counting on Congo's privatization process being completed by next June at latest. The

NIGERIA Energy 20/09/1995

REGIONAL GASLINE PACT SIGNED

An agreement to build a regional gas pipeline tying Benin, Togo and Ghana into the fields in Nigeria's Escravos basin

GHANA Energy 03/08/1995

KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

Kwesi Botchwey may owe his downfall to a drillship. The dismissal of Botchwey, a top-rate finance minister who played a

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MADAGASCAR 17/06/1995

ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Marked on June 10 by the largest opposition demonstration seen in Antananarivo since last year, the campaign for the impeachment of the head of state Albert Zafy, which opposition MPs are now threatening to continue inside parliament, has rekindled the

MOROCCO Energy 07/06/1995

IMPORTS MONOPOLY TO END

With the government poised to privatize the country's two refineries at the end of this year, draft legislation putting an

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CAMEROON Energy 10/05/1995

BOTTOM OF THE BARREL

"There is a lack of openness in the oil sector" and a drop in receipts appears inevitable, confirmed a report entitled "Macro-Economic Survey of Cameroon after the Devaluation" commissioned by the French cooperation ministry. The report resulted from a mission

MAURITIUS 29/04/1995

BIG FAT CONTRACTS AHEAD

Mauritius' ministers of finance (Rama Sithanen) and energy (Swaley Kassenaly) are expected to be in Paris next week for a

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MADAGASCAR 21/04/1995

A WORLD BANK CATALOGUE

Pierre Demangel, who holds the Malagasy dossier at World Bank headquarters in Washington, apparently doesn't hold a grudge against prime minister Francisque Ravony although the latter was targetting Demangel - without naming him - when he commented on April 6

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NORTH AFRICA WEST EUROPE Energy 19/04/1995

EUROPE-MED ENERGY POOL

Energy cooperation in the Mediterranean will figure high on the agenda at a conference in Barcelona on Nov. 12 between the foreign ministers of the 15 European Union countries and 13 nations on the southern and eastern rims of the

CONGO Energy 05/04/1995

GOVERNMENT SELLS ELF CONGO STAKE

No sooner had a law been adopted to allow the government to sell its stake in Elf Congo than the

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MADAGASCAR Energy 22/03/1995

BID TO REVIVE EXPLORATION

Madagascar intends to open all of its sedimentary zones to oil and gas exploration this year with a revised legislative framework allowing for production sharing accords for the first time instead of the so-called "participation" agreements which prevailed under the

CONGO Energy 22/03/1995

END OF THE OIL-STATE

The government last week took a major step towards privatization as championed by the IMF and World Bank when it

GHANA Energy 08/03/1995

ABOADSE LAST GOVERNMENT SCHEME

The Aboadse thermic power station will probably be the last built in Ghana by the Volta River Authority (VRA) without

TANZANIA Energy 08/03/1995

TIPER'S BACK TO THE WALL

The World Bank has made the closure of the Tanzania-Italy

CAMEROON CHAD Energy 08/02/1995

PIPELINE ACCORD SEWN UP

Long-running negotiations between the Chad oil consortium and Yaoundé over the trans-Cameroon pipeline that is required to carry Chad's oil

NIGERIA WEST AFRICA Energy 11/01/1995

REGIONAL GAS PACT

Nigerian oil minister Don Etiebet signed an agreement in early January with his counterparts from Benin, Togo and Ghana to

KENYA Energy 11/01/1995

EIB FINANCING PIPELINE WORKS

The European Investment Bank has confirmed its participation in bankrolling the rehabilitation of the pipeline linking the port and refinery

CONGO Energy 21/12/1994

CALL FOR CORAF CLOSEDOWN

Congo is preparing to privatize the Congolaise de Raffinage (CORAF) concern in the second quarter of 1995 as the World

ERITREA Energy 21/12/1994

PRIVATE CURE FOR ENERGY BRANCH

The World Bank is calling for the energy sector in Eritrea to be gradually turned over to private hands in

ZAIRE Energy 07/12/1994

WORLD BANK'S GUARDED OPTIMISM

The World Bank's delegate for Central Africa and the Indian Ocean, Eugene Scanteje, met in late November with prime minister

CHAD Energy 07/12/1994

WORLD BANK PREPARES LOAN FOR MAJOR PROJECT

Chad's major oil project has bounced back onto the agenda

WEST AFRICA Energy 07/12/1994

WORLD BANK SET ON GAS PROJECT

There is every indication the World Bank has set its mind on seeing an existing gas pipeline in Nigeria between

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MADAGASCAR Energy 23/11/1994

1995 A KEY YEAR

The first invitations to tender are expected to be issued in 1995 for Madagascar's electricity project dubbed "Energie II" while new impetus has been given to reforms in the oil sector although investment in the refinery branch has been shelved.

MADAGASCAR Energy 23/11/1994

REFINERY DITCHED IN IDA PROJECT

A consultancy will be chosen from a short list by the end of January to carry out three studies forming

KENYA Energy 23/11/1994

HEADWAY ON IDA SCHEME

A delegation from the World Bank was expected in Nairobi on Nov. 21 for talks on a so-called Energy programme

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KENYA Energy 09/11/1994

FREE MARKET BLUES

The companies that distribute oil products in Kenya are facing a choice in the short term of either squeezing their profit margins, not to say accepting losses, or resigning themselves to ushering in the new free market era with a

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SOUTH AFRICA Energy 26/10/1994

ENERGY WEEK

"The government has signed with ENH," declared Mario Marques, managing director of Mozambique's Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos. However, it was not with ENH but with Enron that Mozambique had signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the Pande gas deposit,

TANZANIA Energy 12/10/1994

NEW START FOR SONGO-SONGO PROJECT

A company is currently being set up under the name

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AFRICA EUROPE Energy 28/09/1994

EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK: NEW LENDING PUSH?

The level of the European Investment Bank's commitments could climb this year if a number of projected loans currently in the pipeline, and particularly concerning energy projects in Africa, are approved. As the Luxembourg-based institution never puts up money alone

CAMEROON Energy 31/08/1994

EDZOA BOSS OF SNH

As predicted (AEM 139), the new secretary-general in the president's

IVORY COAST Energy 27/07/1994

WORLD BANK ROLE IN VRIDI

An agreement was signed in Paris on July 20 between partners in the Compagnie des Energies Nouvelles de Cote d'Ivoire

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FRANCE Energy 15/06/1994

RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES: FRENCH STRATEGY

In early July a round-table committee will examine a first series of applications for funding under a new pre-financing facility created by France for international projects on renewable sources of energy, particularly solar, and on energy conservation.

CAMEROON Energy 01/06/1994

REFORMS PLANNED WITH IDA

The International Development Association (IDA) is examining a $50 million loan to Cameroon for an "adjustment" programme for the country's

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CONGO Energy 01/06/1994

NEW UPSTREAM LAW

Congo signed a production sharing agreement last week with operator Agip Congo and its associates on the Marine VI and VII permits -- the latter includes the Kitina discovery -- just as it reached a similar accord with Elf Congo

MOROCCO Energy 18/05/1994

PRIVATE SECTOR ROUND STARTS

Bidding in the pre-qualification round for the construction of Morocco's first power stations to be built with private capital was

GHANA Energy 27/04/1994

MORE STUDIES ON TANO

The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has chosen Stone and Webster Engineering to prepare technical documents prior to putting together

GABON Energy 30/03/1994

OIL MINISTER WITH A WORLD BANK PROFILE

Paul Toungui has been given the mines-enery and hydraulic resources

KENYA 19/02/1994

DOWN THE PIPELINE FROM IDA

The International Development Association, a subsidiary of the World Bank, has put seven new projects, totalling more than US$280 million,

DJIBOUTI 19/02/1994

PORT REFORM

The managing committee of France's Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération (aid and cooperation fund) agreed on February 10 to make

ZAMBIA Energy 16/02/1994

NEW NEGOTIATIONS WITH WORLD BANK

A new negotiating round will be held at the end

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MADAGASCAR Energy 16/02/1994

FRESH WOES

Facilities at the Malagasy electricity company Jyrama and Solima's oil refinery at Toamasina figure among installations that suffered from cyclone Geralda that barrelled destructively across the island between Feb.2-4 two weeks after an earlier cyclone, Daisy, had struck Madagascar.

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DJIBOUTI 05/02/1994

THE CARROT AND THE STICK

The simultaneous arrival in Djibouti last week of a "high level" French political delegation and a "heavyweight" World Bank and International Monetary Fund mission is an eye-opener on the way that tasks are being distributed in the matter of the

IVORY COAST Energy 03/02/1994

FOXTROT ON STARTING BLOCKS

The financial package for the Foxtrot gas and electricity project has been virtually put together following a meeting of donor

TANZANIA Energy 03/01/1994

OIL PROJECT LAUNCHED

The initial phase in a series of tenders will open this month to select oil storage and pipeline equipment as

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ZIMBABWE 18/12/1993

THE REFORM CRUNCH IS COMING

Despite some slight recovery in the second half of 1993, the economic balance sheet for 1993 remains pretty mediocre for Zimbabwe: inflation and interest rates have declined but the growth rate (about 1 or 2 percent of GDP) is lower

GHANA Energy 15/12/1993

TWO STAGES FOR ABOADSE

The combustion turbine and combined cycle power station that the Volta River Authority (VRA) will run at Aboadse near Takoradi

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KENYA 04/12/1993

THE ECONOMIC REVOLUTION

If it is put into practice, the Kenyan Government's Policy Framework Paper (1994-1996), worked out with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, will mean a veritable revolution for the country's economy. In its final version (of November 10),

KENYA Energy 01/12/1993

ENERGY PROJECT ON STANDBY

A meeting of the consultative group of donor countries for Kenya in Paris on Nov. 23-23 failed to clear up

KENYA Energy 01/12/1993

LIBERALIZATION ON FAST TRACK?

Controls on oil product prices could be lifted sooner than in mid-1994, the date that was given in June when

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KENYA 27/11/1993

Algerian secret services in survival mode in North Mali

As fight against M23 continues, Kigali and Kinshasa wage war of intelligence

William Ruto's new order

Africa in the Russia-Ukraine war

The Sahel threatened by a jihadist tornado

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ELECTORAL SCENARIOS

DOBA VICTIM OF GLOBALIZATION

TIGHT TIMING FOR NEW PLAN

WORLD BANK COVERS ITSELF

WORLD BANK FOLLOWS SUIT

THREAT TO PIPELINE LOOMS LARGE

THE LAST BUMPY MILE

LAST OBSTACLES TO GAS PIPELINE

WORLD BANK LOAN ON WAY

PRIVATIZATION LOOMS FOR SOLIMA

PIPELINE DELAYED

NEW PIPELINE BARGAINING

OSO II IN SERVICE

YEAR 2000 START FOR SONGO SONGO

PRIVATIZATION TIMETABLES

GREENS FRET OVER PIPELINE PLAN

ENVIRONMENT, MARKET APPROACH GAINS GROUND

HYDRO QUEBEC BIDS FOR SENELEC

PIPELINE CAUGHT IN CROSSFIRE

SLOWCOACH PRIVATIZATION

MAYBE HELP FOR PRIVATIZATION

PIPELINE WAITS IDA GREEN LIGHT

WORLD BANK SECRETS

KICKOFF FOR PIPELINE

UNDER WORLD BANK'S WATCHFULL EYE

GLENCORE PROJECTS

NIGELEC ON THE AUCTION BLOCK

CALUB PROJECT UNDERWAY

TWO STUDIES FOR BEICIP

FRANCE'S NARROW GREENHOUSE EFFECT PIPELINE

LIBERALIZATION HALFWAY HOME

OCELOT LANDS ITS PERMITS

FREE TRADE ZONE IDEA RE-SURFACES

SCRAMBLE AT MALABO

PROMISES, PROMISES

PRIVATIZATION FOR OIL INDUSTRY?

BP AND AGIP MARKETING AFFILIATES PRIVATIZED

THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE

TWO IDA LOANS APPROVED

PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

GET THINGS MOVING

STEP BY STEP REFORMS

LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

WORLD BANK LOAN Free

AGREEMENT ON SONGO SONGO

GOVERNMENT PLANS SELL-OFF

KENYA POWER SECTOR'S CAUTIOUS ADVANCE

PRIVATIZATION BY NEXT JUNE

REGIONAL GASLINE PACT SIGNED

KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

IMPORTS MONOPOLY TO END

BOTTOM OF THE BARREL

BIG FAT CONTRACTS AHEAD

A WORLD BANK CATALOGUE

EUROPE-MED ENERGY POOL

GOVERNMENT SELLS ELF CONGO STAKE

BID TO REVIVE EXPLORATION

END OF THE OIL-STATE

ABOADSE LAST GOVERNMENT SCHEME

TIPER'S BACK TO THE WALL

PIPELINE ACCORD SEWN UP

REGIONAL GAS PACT

EIB FINANCING PIPELINE WORKS

CALL FOR CORAF CLOSEDOWN

PRIVATE CURE FOR ENERGY BRANCH

WORLD BANK'S GUARDED OPTIMISM

WORLD BANK PREPARES LOAN FOR MAJOR PROJECT

WORLD BANK SET ON GAS PROJECT