
One Oil Shock, Two Africas: How a Single Price Move Split a Continent
A single oil-price move split Africa into exporters who gained and importers who paid. Lenders cut the 2026 forecast. Here...
June 23, 2026From Nigeria’s oil and Mozambique’s and Tanzania’s gas to South Africa’s grid crisis and the solar boom spreading across the continent, energy is where Africa’s growth and its great-power bargaining both play out. The Rio Times covers the oil and LNG deals, refineries, power projects and the transition finance reshaping how the continent fuels itself – with an eye on the capital flows and parallels linking Africa to Latin America’s own energy story. This hub collects our Africa energy coverage for investors and analysts.

A single oil-price move split Africa into exporters who gained and importers who paid. Lenders cut the 2026 forecast. Here...
June 23, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief for Tuesday: one energy shock split the continent into winners and losers, with oil exporters gaining as...
June 23, 2026
The FIFA World Cup 2026 album puts Burna Boy, Davido, Rema, Ayra Starr and Tyla on football's biggest stage, beside...
June 23, 2026
Egypt's Hassan Allam has won a $727 million contract to build a Waldorf Astoria hotel and superblock at Saudi Arabia's...
June 23, 2026
Tanzania Russia investment could top $2 billion in five years after President Samia Suluhu Hassan's St Petersburg visit and a...
June 23, 2026
African startup funding topped about $1.3 billion by early June 2026, led by fintech, as debt overtakes equity and North...
June 23, 2026
Africa visa-free travel is reshaping tourism in 2026, as open-skies deals and South Africa's 93-country waiver draw more visitors to...
June 23, 2026
TotalEnergies has restarted its roughly $20 billion Mozambique LNG project four years after an insurgency halted it, with first gas...
June 22, 2026
African films at Tribeca 2026 swept top prizes, from a Cameroonian documentary to Kenyan and Nigerian co-productions, marking the continent's...
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