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Publisher: James King. en 2026-10-28T22:30:42.972810+02:00 https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/egypt-ebrd-scatec-renewables-equity.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/egypt-ebrd-scatec-renewables-equity.html The bank’s minority position in Egypt Renewables Holdings B.V. is pitched at 2.7 GW solar, 900 MW wind and 4.2 GWh of storage — a North Africa business lead about institutional capital, not a completed build-out. 2026-10-29T05:55:00+02:00 Rania Benali Business https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/sa-lge-2026-sandf-kzn.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/sa-lge-2026-sandf-kzn.html With 4 November ballots still being reprinted after a Constitutional Court candidate order, President Ramaphosa’s 510-strong SANDF deployment to KZN frames a politics lead that is about logistics and force posture — not 2026-10-29T05:40:00+02:00 Thabo Molefe Politics https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/kenya-opposition-wamunyoro-2027.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/kenya-opposition-wamunyoro-2027.html After Kalonzo Musyoka’s 26 October visit to Rigathi Gachagua’s Wamunyoro home, principals say they will field a single candidate against President William Ruto — while December-versus-late calendars remain unresolved. 2026-10-28T22:20:00+02:00 Amina Yusuf Politics https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/afdb-undp-ai-10-billion.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/afdb-undp-ai-10-billion.html After a 5–7 October UNDP mission to AfDB headquarters in Abidjan, the partners say implementation begins in five unnamed countries, with a path to 20 by end-2027 — and a $1bn-a-year mobilisation ambition, not a cash pile 2026-10-28T22:05:00+02:00 Amina Yusuf Tech https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/tanzania-mnazi-bay-gas-discovery.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/tanzania-mnazi-bay-gas-discovery.html Energy Minister Juma Homera put 223 billion cubic feet of estimated reserves on the Kasa-1X ST2 well. Production is pitched for early November — a domestic-power story more than an LNG boom narrative. 2026-10-28T21:55:00+02:00 Amina Yusuf Climate & Energy https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/gabon-prospector5-rig-incident.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/gabon-prospector5-rig-incident.html Borr Drilling’s Prospector 5 sank on 24 October during preload jacking on BW Energy’s Dussafu licence. Of 115 aboard, 110 were accounted for; President Oligui Nguema visited Port-Gentil as search continued with Congolese 2026-10-28T21:50:00+02:00 Chinedu Eze Climate & Energy https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/sudan-uk-elfasher-sanctions.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/sudan-uk-elfasher-sanctions.html London designated RSF and SAF figures over atrocities including conflict-related sexual violence, with travel bans and asset freezes — and £15m in survivor and humanitarian packages that will not stop the war. 2026-10-28T21:40:00+02:00 Lemlem Bekele Security https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/dakar-yog-2026-opening-eve.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/dakar-yog-2026-opening-eve.html From 31 October to 13 November, Senegal hosts about 2,700 young athletes across Dakar, Diamniadio and Saly — with a cultural programme that organisers treat as part of the Games, not a sideshow. 2026-10-28T21:25:00+02:00 Sipho Dlamini Sport https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/accra-pagya-literary-festival-10.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/accra-pagya-literary-festival-10.html Writers Project of Ghana, Goethe-Institut and FCA-Ghana staged the tenth Pa Gya! from 16–18 October in Cantonments — readings, prizes and comics in a city that still builds its shelf the hard way. 2026-10-28T21:10:00+02:00 Wanjiku Kamau Culture https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/dangote-refinery-ipo-closes.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/dangote-refinery-ipo-closes.html Africa’s largest refining IPO shut its books on 27 October after an SEC extension. Company materials cite investor interest from 120 countries; how much capital lands and at what allotment remains the next filing. 2026-10-28T20:15:00+02:00 Amara Okonkwo Business https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/ruto-moscow-russia-africa-summit.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/ruto-moscow-russia-africa-summit.html At the Third Russia-Africa Summit, Kenya’s president pitched manufacturing, fertiliser and a Sh5.2 trillion infrastructure pipeline — while bilateral trade remains heavily tilted toward Russian imports. 2026-10-28T19:45:00+02:00 Amina Yusuf Politics https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/egypt-red-sea-littoral-declaration.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/egypt-red-sea-littoral-declaration.html Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan’s Sovereignty Council issued a New Alamein declaration on 4 October backing coastal control of Red Sea rules and freedom of navigation through Bab el-Mandeb — a document that does not na 2026-10-28T19:10:00+02:00 Yasmine El-Sayed Politics https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/au-mycm-el-alamein-afcfta.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/au-mycm-el-alamein-afcfta.html African leaders and regional blocs met in Egypt on 4 October and adopted a declaration that re-centres preferential trade, non-tariff barriers, corridors and a clearer division of labour between the AU and the RECs. 2026-10-28T18:55:00+02:00 Lemlem Bekele Politics https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/mozambique-china-debt-reschedule.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/mozambique-china-debt-reschedule.html Finance Minister Carla Loveira and China’s ambassador signed a supplementary framework in Maputo on 26 October. Exim Bank instruments come next; revised schedules and amounts have not been published. 2026-10-28T18:50:00+02:00 Thabo Molefe Business https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/sahel-displacement-funding-gap.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/sahel-displacement-funding-gap.html UNHCR says displacement across Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger has roughly doubled since 2020, with the agency’s Sahel response only about 27% funded against a $329.6 million requirement as of September 2026. 2026-10-28T18:20:00+02:00 Fatou Diallo Security https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/west-africa-trade-corridor.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/west-africa-trade-corridor.html ECOWAS is pushing digital transit tools and AfCFTA coordination along the Abidjan–Lagos spine — where freight still meets too many checkpoints for a single market that exists mostly on paper. 2026-10-28T17:55:00+02:00 Kwame Mensah Politics https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/ghana-cocoa-season-2026-27.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/ghana-cocoa-season-2026-27.html COCOBOD set the producer price at GH¢42,400 per tonne (GH¢2,650 per 64 kg bag) from 25 September under Act 1182’s 70% FOB floor — even as production forecasts for the season have been cut. 2026-10-28T17:40:00+02:00 Kwame Mensah Business https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/west-africa-coastal-asylum-pressure.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/west-africa-coastal-asylum-pressure.html Almost 500,000 Burkinabè refugees and asylum-seekers sought safety in neighbouring countries in 2026, UNHCR says — pushing Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Togo into a protection crisis that began far from their coasts. 2026-10-28T17:05:00+02:00 Amara Okonkwo Politics https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/solar-md-cape-storage-export.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/solar-md-cape-storage-export.html Solar MD’s Richmond Park manufacturing footprint sits at the centre of South Africa’s push to turn load-shedding-era demand into an export industry — with capacity claims that still need independent audit. 2026-10-28T16:45:00+02:00 Thabo Molefe Business https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/saev-battery-backed-charging-rollout.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/saev-battery-backed-charging-rollout.html Cape Town’s SAEV Charge is pairing roughly 120 kW DC bays with onboard storage so stations keep working when the grid does not — a test case for e-mobility on unstable networks. 2026-10-28T16:40:00+02:00 Naledi van Wyk Climate & Energy https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/nairobi-fintech-licence-wave.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/nairobi-fintech-licence-wave.html Kenya’s Central Bank now lists dozens of authorised payment service providers — a regulatory thicket that is becoming the real infrastructure of East Africa’s digital money rails. 2026-10-28T16:20:00+02:00 Amina Yusuf Tech https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/alamein-investment-platform-2027.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/alamein-investment-platform-2027.html Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa announced a vehicle targeted for February 2027 around the AUDA-NEPAD track in El-Alamein. No capitalisation figure has been published. 2026-10-28T16:05:00+02:00 Rania Benali Business https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/sonah-ev-charging-distribution.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/sonah-ev-charging-distribution.html As charge-point operators expand, B2B distributors such as Cape Town’s SONAH Group are positioning to put battery-backed hardware into contractor channels — a supply-chain story behind the highway plugs. 2026-10-28T15:40:00+02:00 Naledi van Wyk Business https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/opinion-grid-reliability-industrial-policy.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/opinion-grid-reliability-industrial-policy.html Opinion: Factories, charge points and export ambitions in South Africa increasingly price the same risk — whether the feeder stays up. Treating reliability as a side issue misses the manufacturing plot. 2026-10-28T15:20:00+02:00 Zanele Nkosi Opinion https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/sahel-grid-stabilisation.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/sahel-grid-stabilisation.html An AfDB-backed interconnection spanning Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad aims to stitch fragile grids together — without pretending a single Sahel-wide power treaty already exists. 2026-10-28T15:10:00+02:00 Fatou Diallo Climate & Energy https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/opinion-afcfta-freight-on-the-ground.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/opinion-afcfta-freight-on-the-ground.html Opinion: Summit declarations on preferential trade will not clear a truck at a sticky border. The next credibility test is non-tariff barriers, payments rails and corridor discipline — measured in hours, not communiqués. 2026-10-28T14:50:00+02:00 Zanele Nkosi Opinion https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/maghreb-solar-auction.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/maghreb-solar-auction.html From a Moroccan pre-qualification round to Tunisian licences and Algerian Sonelgaz awards, North Africa’s solar pipeline is moving — with storage starting to appear in tender design. 2026-10-28T14:12:00+02:00 Rania Benali Climate & Energy https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/cape-port-expansion.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/cape-port-expansion.html Transnet’s Phase 2B landside works aim to lift Cape Town container throughput toward 1.4 million TEU a year — while exporters still wait on when deeper berths will actually arrive. 2026-10-28T13:30:00+02:00 Thabo Molefe Business https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/afcon-qualifiers-weekend.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/afcon-qualifiers-weekend.html With Matchdays 3 and 4 of the TotalEnergies CAF AFCON PAMOJA 2027 qualifiers due in mid-November, the November window — not last weekend’s sparse October leftovers — is the table-mover African football is watching. 2026-10-28T12:40:00+02:00 Sipho Dlamini Sport https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/addis-au-summit-brief.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/addis-au-summit-brief.html After the 39th Assembly in February 2026 prioritised water security and Agenda 2063, Addis remains the room where African leaders translate conflict files into institutional process — slowly, and on the record. 2026-10-28T12:05:00+02:00 Lemlem Bekele Politics https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/lagos-power-reform-watch.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/lagos-power-reform-watch.html After the Electricity Act 2023 opened the door to state regulators, Lagos’s LASERC is building a local market rulebook while NERC keeps the national grid and interstate trade — a split that will define Nigeria’s commerci 2026-10-28T11:50:00+02:00 Chinedu Eze Climate & Energy https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/lagos-book-fair-pan-african.html https://africanbulletin24.com/stories/lagos-book-fair-pan-african.html The 25th Nigeria International Book Fair in May 2026 drew young publishers and educators from across the continent — a reminder that Africa’s reading market is trying to organise itself beyond national warehouses. 2026-10-28T11:15:00+02:00 Wanjiku Kamau Culture