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African Energy Week (AEW) 2025: Invest in African Energies is set to welcome leading voices from some of the most influential advisory and market intelligence firms supporting Africa’s energy transformation. With a sharpened focus on facilitating investment and de-risking entry into Africa’s oil, gas and energy sectors, this group of speakers reflects growing demand for trusted insight, financial strategy and legal clarity as the continent positions itself for large-scale energy development.

Representing Rystad Energy, Bimbola Kolawole, Vice President and Head of Commercial, Africa, brings the perspective of one of the world’s leading independent research and energy intelligence firms. With Rystad’s data-driven insights playing a central role in shaping investor and operator decision-making, the company’s analysis of African upstream and gas markets has become essential to understanding resource potential and project viability. At AEW, Kolawole will speak to how real-time intelligence and market modeling can help both African stakeholders and global investors identify actionable opportunities and build bankable projects.

Joining the conversation is Fiyinfolu Okedare, Director of Consulting at Forvis Mazars, a global advisory group with deep expertise in corporate structuring, due diligence and energy sector transactions. Forvis Mazars has emerged as a key partner for companies navigating Africa’s diverse regulatory environments and planning long-term investments. Okedare will contribute strategic insights into how advisory support can unlock financial close, improve compliance and align investor expectations with project realities, particularly in complex or emerging markets.

Also speaking is Onyeka Cindy Ojogbo, Deputy Managing Partner at CLG, one of Africa’s foremost legal and regulatory advisors focused on energy. CLG has played a pivotal role in shaping upstream policy, cross-border energy frameworks and legal reforms across the continent. At AEW, Ojogbo will share how legal innovation, contract structuring and policy advocacy are enabling energy investments to move from exploration to development at a faster, more secure pace.

Africa’s energy sector is experiencing a structural shift, marked by increasing domestic participation, shifting capital flows and growing interest in integrated oil and gas development, along with gas-to-power and renewable diversification. As global capital becomes more cautious and competitive, African markets must sharpen their value proposition. Transparent licensing rounds, fiscal stability, ESG alignment and robust project preparation have become non-negotiables for attracting long-term international investors. In this environment, intelligence and advisory firms serve as critical enablers – translating opportunity into action and reducing uncertainty across every stage of the value chain.

“Africa is open for investment, but success depends on transparency, trusted partners and data-backed strategies,” states NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman of the African Energy Chamber. “Rystad, Forvis Mazars and CLG are helping to build that foundation. They are not just observers – they are enablers of deals, progress, and long-term impact.”

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Energy Chamber.

About AEW: Invest in African Energies:
AEW: Invest in African Energies is the platform of choice for project operators, financiers, technology providers and government, and has emerged as the official place to sign deals in African energy. Visit www.AECWeek.com for more information about this exciting event.

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Energy project developer Technip Energies has confirmed its participation as a Gold Sponsor at the upcoming MSGBC Oil, Gas & Power 2025 conference and exhibition, taking place from December 9-10 in Dakar. Held under the theme Energy, Petroleum and Mining in Africa: Synergy for Inclusive Economic Development, the event is organized with the support of Senegal’s Ministry of Energy, Petroleum and Mines, Petrosen, COS-Petrogaz and the African Energy Chamber. 

With over 100 projects completed across the continent, Technip Energies continues to play a leading role in advancing energy infrastructure and local development in Mauritania, Senegal and Guinea-Conakry. The company’s sponsorship at MSGBC Oil, Gas & Power 2025 underscores its long-standing commitment to the MSGBC region. 

Explore opportunities, foster partnerships and stay at the forefront of the MSGBC region’s oil, gas and power sector. Visit www.MSGBCOilGasandPower.com to secure your participation at the MSGBC Oil, Gas & Power 2025 conference. To sponsor or participate as a delegate, please contact sales@energycapitalpower.com.

In June 2025, Technip Energies achieved commercial operations for the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel deployed at the bp-operated Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) (https://apo-opa.co/4lnxBR6) gas project offshore Mauritania and Senegal. The FPSO is equipped with eight processing and production modules and is designed to accommodate 140 personnel and process up to 500 million standard cubic feet of gas per day, enabling the production of 2.3 million tons of LNG annually during Phase 1 of the project. 

First cargo (https://apo-opa.co/4fyVKCZ) for the GTA project was loaded for export in April 2025, marking Mauritania and Senegal’s debut as LNG exporting nations. The first phase of the project is on track to produce about 2.3 million tons per year of LNG, with a portion allocated to domestic markets in both countries. Partners are advancing planning for Phase 2 of the GTA development (https://apo-opa.co/3Ut7n4L) – set for 2025-2027 – which will explore a gravity-based structure concept, aiming to expand capacity to between 2.5 and 3 million tons per annum. 

In Guinea-Conakry, Technip Energies is supporting the country’s efforts to build downstream capacity in the mining sector. The company was recently awarded a front-end engineering design contract for an alumina refinery (https://apo-opa.co/412NrJG), which will process Guinea-Conakry’s bauxite reserves into alumina for electric vehicle battery production and energy storage technologies. 

Meanwhile, the company is also leading the ACATBS modernization project at the SAR refinery in Senegal, a critical national infrastructure upgrade aimed at increasing processing capacity, enhancing fuel security and supporting local industrialization. The project incorporates strong local content initiatives, including the training and deployment of national professionals across engineering and commissioning phases. 

Operating under a strategy that emphasized gas monetization, industrial development and local workforce integration, Technip Energies is a key partner to public institutions across the MSGBC region. The company’s participation at MSGBC Oil, Gas & Power 2025 reflects its role in delivering transformational projects that contribute to energy sovereignty and inclusive economic growth. 

“Technip Energies’ continued investment in transformation projects across the MSGBC region highlights the critical role of engineering excellence and local content in unlocking the basin’s full energy potential. Their presence reinforces a mission to foster cross-border collaboration and sustainable development throughout West Africa,” states Sandra Jeque, Project Director, Energy Capital & Power. 

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Energy Capital & Power.

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This year’s Angola Oil & Gas (AOG) conference – scheduled for September 3-4 in Luanda – will feature the first-ever Deals & Showcases Track as part of the main conference agenda. Taking place alongside the Strategic and Technical Tracks, this exclusive program feature encompasses a series of sessions that will explore the procurement process of some of the country’s biggest operators. The track will also feature presentations that demonstrate youth-led innovation in Angolan oil and gas. With just one month to go until the event, now is the time to secure your place and be part of the multi-track program.  

The Deals & Showcases Track is geared towards both Angolan youth as well as the country’s service providers, entrepreneurs and innovators. Led by major players, the track will introduce key solutions across the value chain, with presentations offering insight into innovative methods to drive exploration, production and broader industry development in Angola.  

A masterclass on Understanding IOC Procurement: Best Practices for Service Companies will take place during the event. The session will navigate the procurement processes of international companies active in Angola, providing an in-depth look at how companies structure their procurement strategies, what they prioritize in supplier selection and how service providers can optimize their approach to meet industry expectations. The session will be led by Adao Costa, Procurement Manager at ExxonMobil Angola.  

A session powered by Angola’s national oil company Sonangol – titled SonaJovem Showcase – will see entrepreneurs and innovators take the stage to present their business solutions to a panel of seasoned investors and executives. With a few minutes to make their case, Angola’s bright minds will showcase the potential of their technology, business model or energy solution. Additionally, a closed-door Carbon Market Session will also take place during this track, followed by a showcase led by energy major TotalEnergies.  

Meanwhile, a session on Empowering Local: Forex Solutions for Sustainable Growth in Angola’s Oil & Gas Sector will examine the evolving financial landscape in Angola and the impact on local service providers. The session will feature insights from experts and industry leaders on how to overcome hurdles in securing foreign currency for international payments and how to position local businesses for growth in a US-dollar dominated global market.  

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Energy Capital & Power.

About AOG:
AOG is the largest oil and gas event in Angola. Taking place with the full support of the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas; the National Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANPG); the Petroleum Derivatives Regulatory Institute (IRDP); national oil company Sonangol; and the African Energy Chamber; the event is a platform to sign deals and advance Angola’s oil and gas industry. To sponsor or participate as a delegate, please contact sales@energycapitalpower.com.

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On UN International Youth Day 2025, the Youth Charter (www.YouthCharter.org) is urging Africa’s governments, sports bodies, communities, and young leaders to unite behind a Global Call to Action that will ensure the 2026 Dakar Youth Olympic Games deliver a lasting legacy of hope and opportunity for the continent’s young people.

The Dakar Games will be the first-ever Olympic event staged on African soil – a milestone moment for the International Olympic Committee and a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Africa’s youth.

“Dakar 2026 must be more than a sporting spectacle – it must be the spark for a continental movement that engages, equips, and empowers our young people,” said Professor Geoff Thompson MBE FRSA DL, Founder and Chair of the Youth Charter. “Africa’s youth are the youngest and fastest-growing population in the world. We must channel their talent and energy into building peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable communities.”

A Legacy Opportunity for All – #LegacyOpportunity4All

Since 1993, the Youth Charter has worked across Africa – from post-apartheid township programmes in South Africa to social coach training in Namibia and youth leadership development in Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya. This experience has shown that sport, when linked to education, health, employment, and environmental action, can transform lives.

For Dakar 2026, the Youth Charter is proposing a Pan-African Youth Legacy Programme that will:

1. Train thousands of “Social Coaches” across all 54 African nations, using the Games as a catalyst to expand youth mentoring and leadership.
2. Establish Community Campuses in urban and rural areas to provide Somewhere to Go, Something to Do, and Someone to Show Them – safe spaces for sport, learning, culture, and enterprise.
3. Align all projects with the UN SDGs, ensuring measurable impact in health, education, gender equality, peace, climate action, and partnerships.

From Dakar to Every African Community

The Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games can inspire and activate programmes far beyond Senegal:

• In South Africa, the Youth Charter’s Mandela-inspired initiatives show how sport can unite divided communities and drive social change.
• In Nigeria and Ghana, sport is already creating employment opportunities for young people – from coaching to digital media and event management.
• In Kenya and Uganda, community sport programmes are improving health outcomes and increasing school retention, especially for girls.
• Across the Sahel, sport-led interventions are being used to promote peace, resilience, and climate awareness in areas facing instability.

A Call to Africa’s Leaders

The Youth Charter is calling on:

• African Union & Member States: Integrate Sport for Development and Peace into national development plans and the AU’s Agenda 2063.
• African private sector & philanthropy: Invest in community sport infrastructure and youth programmes as part of corporate social responsibility and shared value strategies.
• African youth leaders: Take the lead in designing and delivering projects that respond to local needs, using Dakar 2026 as a launch platform.
• IOC & International Partners: Commit to long-term investment in Africa’s youth, ensuring the Dakar Games legacy is built and sustained well beyond 2026.

From Dakar to 2030

With only five years left to achieve the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, Dakar 2026 offers Africa a unique moment to demonstrate authentic, evidence-based impact in youth development. The Youth Charter’s #LegacyOpportunity4All vision aligns with the IOC’s Olympism365 strategy and the UN’s Youth2030 plan – ensuring sport is a driver of inclusive and sustainable growth.

“From Dakar’s stadiums to Africa’s streets and villages, we can create a generation of young people who see sport not just as a game, but as a pathway to education, peace, climate action, and opportunity,” Thompson concluded.

Download the Youth Charter UN International Youth Day Essay & Dakar 2026 Legacy Briefing: Youth Charter – From Rhetoric to Reality: Global Call to Action for Sport for Development and Peace

– on behalf of Youth Charter.

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About Youth Charter:
Founded in 1993 in Manchester, UK, the Youth Charter is a UN-accredited NGO with three decades of experience delivering Sport for Development and Peace initiatives in the UK and internationally. Its mission is to Engage, Equip, and Empower young people through sport, art, culture, and digital activity, creating sustainable legacy opportunities for all.

The Youth Charter is a UK registered charity and UN accredited non-governmental organisation. Launched in 1993 as part of the Manchester 2000 Olympic Bid and the 2002 Commonwealth Games, the Youth Charter has Campaigned and Promoted the role and value of sport, art, culture and digital technology in the lives of disaffected young people from disadvantaged communities nationally and internationally. The Youth Charter has a proven track record in the creation and delivery of social and human development programmes with the overall aim of providing young people with an opportunity to develop in life.

Specifically, The Youth Charter Tackles educational non-attainment, health inequality, anti-social behaviour and the negative effects of crime, drugs, gang related activity and racism by applying the ethics of sporting and artistic excellence. These can then be translated to provide social and economic benefits of citizenship, rights responsibilities, with improved education, health, social order, environment and college, university, employment and enterprise.

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Marked by a surge in renewable deployment, growing regional market activity and strategic public-private partnerships, Africa’s energy landscape is evolving rapidly. As the continent pushes toward universal electrification and energy resilience, key industry leaders are set to share their strategies and insights at this year’s African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies 2025 conference, taking place from September 29 to October 3 in Cape Town.

Solar energy company Genesis Energy Group recently signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Desert Technologies to accelerate clean energy deployment across Africa. The deal targets joint project development and project transfer, enforcing Africa’s ability to implement distributed solar systems at scale. The agreement comes amid a growing project pipeline for the company, which now exceeds 4.5 GW in installed capacity. Other high-profile initiatives by Genesis Energy Group include a 334 MW system for the Port Harcourt Refinery in Nigeria as well as a 1 GW energy rollout in the West African Economic and Monetary Union region. The company is also developing the Lagos Green Hydrogen Park as well as a $10 billion renewable energy platform aimed at bridging Africa’s power deficit through integrated distributed systems. Akinwole Omoboriowo, Chairman and CEO, Genesis Energy Group, is expected to discuss the company’s long-term project and investment strategy at AEW: Invest in African Energies 2025.

Meanwhile, Stephen Dihwa, Coordination Center Manager, Southern African Power Pool (SAPP), will provide insight into cross-border power market growth and integration across the Southern African region. Created in 1995, SAPP is a platform for power trading, grid connection and reliability across the region. In February 2025, the SAPP recorded a 103% increase in competitive market turnover, reaching $16.3 million, while traded volumes rose to nearly 120 GWh. These trends point to stronger utility engagement, improved forecasting tools and growing confidence in short-term power trading. Dihwa’s insights at AEW: Invest in African Energies 2025 will cover the impact SAPP plays in enhancing electrification as well as upcoming investment opportunities.

Gabon is also making strides towards boosting connectivity. The country’s state-owned Gabon Power Company recently started civil engineering works for the 125 MW Owendo gas-to-power plant with manufacturing company Wärtsilä under an independent power producer model. The company also recently completed the first phase of the Plaine Ayémé solar plant outside Libreville, which is expected to generate 30 MW and power up to 300,000 homes. With both projects set to support Gabon’s long-term electrification and industrial strategy, Philippe Ossoucah, CEO, Gabon Power Company, is positioned to provide insight into the firm’s pipeline and role in shaping Gabon’s low-carbon energy future.

Meanwhile, as the company accelerates investment across gas distribution, renewables and energy infrastructure in Nigeria, integrated energy conglomerate Levene Energy represents a dynamic player in the country’s energy security and industrialization drive. The company boasts gas distribution licenses in Ibeju-Lekki and Badagry-Seme, is deploying low-carbon pipelines through Aegon Distribution and is advancing solar PV manufacturing and rural electrification with Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Agency. As such, Omobola Omofaiye, General Manager of LPV Technologies at Levene Energy, will have the opportunity to discuss how the company’s vertically integrated model is enabling infrastructure expansion, local content development and last-mile energy access.

“Africa’s energy sector is at a pivotal moment, where strong partnerships and strategic investments are unlocking massive potential across the value chain. These initiatives reflect a broader shift toward models that prioritize infrastructure, local value creation and industrial growth. The work being implemented by these diverse companies show a dedicate effort to deliver long-term, scalable solutions to the continent’s energy challenges,” states Tomás Gerbasio, VP of Commercial and Strategic Engagement, African Energy Chamber.

– on behalf of African Energy Chamber.

AEW: Invest in African Energies:
AEW: Invest in African Energies is the platform of choice for project operators, financiers, technology providers and government, and has emerged as the official place to sign deals in African energy. Visit www.AECWeek.com for more information about this exciting event.

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African youth are less likely than older generations to engage in a variety of political and civic activities, with one exception – protest, Afrobarometer’s (www.Afrobarometer.org) new flagship report (https://apo-opa.co/4lrTLSn) reveals. 

The largest generational disparity is in voting, where the youth (aged 18-35) trail their elders by a striking 18 percentage points. Youth are also less likely to feel close to a political party, to attend a community meeting, to join with others to raise an issue, and to contact traditional leaders and local government councillors. 

The report, the second in an annual series on high-priority topics, draws on data spanning the past decade, including the latest round of nationally representative surveys in 39 countries, representing the views of more than three-fourths of the continent’s population. The analysis focuses on 10 key indicators of citizen engagement. 

These generational gaps underscore the challenges of political participation on the world’s most youthful continent if governments fail to create channels for meaningful engagement.  

The new flagship report, based on 53,444 face-to-face interviews, is accompanied by country scorecards (https://apo-opa.co/414kmO9) on citizen engagement that provide an at-a-glance snapshot of key indicators of citizen participation for each of the surveyed countries. 

Afrobarometer survey  

Afrobarometer is a pan-African, non-partisan survey research network that provides reliable data on African experiences and evaluations of democracy, governance, and quality of life. Nine survey rounds in up to 42 countries have been completed since 1999. Round 9 surveys (2021/2023) cover 39 countries.  

Afrobarometer’s national partners conduct face-to-face interviews in the language of the respondent’s choice. National samples of 1,200-2,400 yield country-level results with margins of error of +/-2 to +/-3 percentage points at a 95% confidence level.  

Key findings 

• African youth (aged 18-35) are less likely than older generations to attend a community meeting (-12 percentage points), contact traditional leaders (-10 points), contact local government councillors (-10 points), feel close to a political party (-8 points), and join with others to raise an issue (-8 points) (Figure 1). 
  • The most striking deficit is in voter turnout (-18 percentage points). 
• Senegal (-29 percentage points), Cameroon (-28 points), and Zimbabwe (-28 points) exhibit the largest disparities in voting rates by age (Figure 2).  
• Attendance at community meetings sees the widest gaps in Côte d’Ivoire (-28 points), Zambia (-26 points), and Botswana (-24 points) (Figure 3).  
• When it comes to direct engagement with local government officials, the largest disparities are in Lesotho (-24 points), Zambia (-20 points), Guinea (-16 points), and Kenya (-16 points) (Figure 4).  
• Youth are more likely than their elders to participate in protests in many African countries, although rates in 16 countries differ by no more than 1 percentage point (Figure 5). 
  • Tunisia stands out with the largest gap in protest rates (+17 points), followed by Sudan (+9 points) and São Tomé and Príncipe (+7 points).  

– on behalf of Afrobarometer.

Link to the full flagship report: https://apo-opa.co/4lrTLSn

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Josephine Appiah-Nyamekye Sanny 
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