Uganda and Tanzania have signed a US$3.5 billion deal to build an oil pipeline which will transport crude from the former’s Lake Albert oil fields to the Tanzanian port of Tanga. The deal, signed on Sunday by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni...

Total yesterday announced that a security pact has been signed with the Mozambique government to protect a US$20 billion liquified natural gas (LNG) project in the Southern African country. Government security forces have been engaged in a low-level insurgency against militias...

Gold mining companies in Mali have reported no changes as their operations despite the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita earlier this week in a military coup. The likes of Barrick Gold, B2Gold, Resolute Mining, AngloGold Ashanti, Hummingbird Resources and Cora...

The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) has handed mining industry veteran and consultant Roger Dixon the 2020 Brigadier Stokes award. Approaching his 50th year in the South African mining sector, Dixon said the Brigadier Stokes Award – bestowed for...

Dangote Cement’s Pan-African operations performed well in the first half of 2020 and contributed positively to its Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA), the company said. The cement giant told Nigerian business news website Nairametrics that ‘the Pan-African business...