Africa

Nigeria

Dangote Selects Honeywell Technologies for Upgrade Project at Africa’s Largest Petroleum Refinery

Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE has selected Honeywell International Inc. to provide advanced process technology, proprietary catalysts, equip…

Australia

South Africa’s Harmony Gold to Invest up to $1.75 Billion in Australian Copper Project

Harmony Gold (HARJ.J) announced on Monday that its board has approved an investment of between $1.55 billion and $1.75 billion to develop the Eva Copper project…

Nigeria

Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery Delays CDU Maintenance to End of January 2026

Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery, Africa’s largest with a capacity of 650,000 barrels per day, has postponed planned maintenance on its primary crude dist…

Metal

South Africa, EU Sign Critical Minerals Deal, Vow to Defend Multilateralism

South Africa and the European Union reaffirmed their commitment to multilateral cooperation as they signed a partnership agreement on critical minerals, in prep…

United States

World’s Longest Subsea Cable Completed: Meta’s 2Africa Set to Supercharge Connectivity Across Africa

The 2Africa subsea cable system, one of the largest international telecommunications projects ever deployed, has now completed its core network and is fully ope…

Ukraine

Ukraine Agrees to Establish First Agrohub in Africa

Ukraine’s Ministry of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture and Ghana’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture have signed a Memorandum of Understanding t…

Metal

African Rainbow Minerals Considers Papua New Guinea Copper Venture With Newmont Corp

African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) Chairman Patrice Motsepe said on Tuesday that the company is assessing a major copper project in Papua New Guinea in cooperation …

Metal

Barrick Mining Considers Splitting Into Two Entities, Sources Say

Barrick Gold's board is exploring options to divide the company into two distinct operations, with one centered on North American assets and the other on pr…

China

China Mobile Boosts Global Subsea Network With Major Hong Kong and Africa Milestones

The company announced the completion of two major developments, including the landing of the Hong Kong segment of the SEA-H2X submarine cable and the activation…

Germany

AST Spacemobile, Vodafone Launch Satellite Operations Centre in Germany

AST SpaceMobile, the developer of the world’s first space-based cellular broadband network directly accessible by standard smartphones, and Vodafone Group…

Saudi Arabia

Nokia, CST & Stc Complete Middle East’s First 7 Ghz 6G Spectrum Trial

Nokia, the Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST), and stc have announced the successful completion of the Middle East and Africa’s first 7…

Coal Production

Makhado Project Progressing Well, Uitkomst Improvement Plan Approved

MC Mining reported steady progress in developing the Makhado project in Limpopo during the quarter ended September 30, achieving key milestones despite some con…

Metal

Angola Diamond Production Totals 10.7mct in January-September

Angola’s rough diamond production reached 10.7 million carats in the first nine months to September 2025, a government official announced on Friday, as th…

Oil Refinery

Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery Ramps up Output on Back of New Fuel Import Duty

Nigeria’s Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Africa’s largest oil refinery, announced on Saturday that it is increasing production to meet national petrol …

Oil Refinery

Dangote Refinery to Expand Capacity to 1.4m Barrels Daily

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Africa’s largest refining facility, is set to undergo a major expansion that will increase its production capacity from 65…