Industry Dynamics

Rwanda has been exploring the use of gas from Lake Kivu for cooking, industrial use and vehicles. It is expected that the cooking gas produced from this lake could start being used by the end of 2023.

Africa's coffee export registers reduction as of May while on the flipside Ethiopia’s export gained about a fifth increment in comparison to a similar period of 2021. Globally, coffee prices have shown a 4.5 percent gain in June.

Ghana's export of mangoes grew by 28 per cent between 2020 and 2021 putting the country in the 11th position in the order of countries that exported mangoes to the world in 2021.

For a long time now, potato farmers in the country have been facing numerous challenges such as poor quality seeds, lack of information on crop nutrition programmes, restricted access to finance and unreliable markets.

When we hear the words “local rice farmer”, we might imagine a rural dweller in a straw hat cultivating their crops in a rice paddy. As familiar as this picture might be, the story does not end there.

The African nation of Chad has one of the world’s lowest rates for electricity access, but new investment in renewables is expected to reverse the situation, beginning with a solar plant expected to be fully operational in early 2023.

TEOSS also plans a facility so that lithium batteries from solar products that can’t be repaired are repurposed into battery packs for powering homes, businesses, or other facilities.

MPs on the committee were dismayed to learn how Pinetti, the firm's director, reportedly mortgaged 25 acres of state land in Namanve - given to them to secure a loan from a commercial banks - to set up the coffee processing plant.

Minister of Energy Transition Leila Benali said at a parliament session on Monday that Morocco succeeded for the “first time in its history” to access the international liquefied natural gas.