BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of the Congo, November 6, 2026/APO Group/ –The Republic of Congo is at a turning point in its energy development. The country aims to increase oil production to 500,000 barrels per day within three years while advancing its Gas Master Plan to reduce flaring. As a result of this strategy, investment opportunities are emerging across the upstream value chain for international oil companies looking to revive exploration and rehabilitate mature fields.

As the country seeks to maximize the value of its hydrocarbon resources, increase production and expand its industrial base, the Congo Energy & Investment Forum (CEIF) 2027 will bring investors and policymakers together in Brazzaville from June 1–3 to examine projects and investment opportunities across the sector.

 




 
 

Reviving Exploration and Rehabilitating Mature Fields

Opportunities across Congo’s oil production sector cater to different investor profiles. The country is seeking to revive exploration, particularly onshore, through the Cuvette and Kouilou permits. The government has also introduced incentives to encourage companies to take on the financial risks associated with exploring geologically complex areas. Greater flexibility in production-sharing contracts, including more favorable fiscal terms for deepwater and ultra-deepwater exploration, is intended to attract investment into these higher-risk plays.

These measures are beginning to translate into renewed exploration activity. In April 2026, TotalEnergies announced a discovery on the Moho license, where the MHNM-6 NFW exploration well encountered a 160-meter hydrocarbon column. Combined with an earlier discovery on the neighboring Moho F structure, the findings represent estimated recoverable resources of close to 100 million barrels. TotalEnergies plans to develop the resources through tie-backs to existing production infrastructure.

Beyond exploration, Congo is also seeking to extend the productive life of its mature fields. This creates opportunities for independent operators specializing in acquiring and revitalizing assets, using infill drilling and near-field exploration to unlock additional production. Perenco provides an example of this approach. In May 2026, the company reported the results of a five-well infill campaign on its offshore Tchibouela East field, completed at the end of 2025. The wells delivered a sustained production increase of approximately 6,000 barrels of oil per day.

Gas Creates Investment Opportunities in Exports and Domestic Power Generation

Eni’s Congo LNG project reached a liquefaction capacity of three million tons per annum (mtpa) in February 2026, when the 2.4-mtpa Nguya floating unit joined the 0.6-mtpa Tango FLNG facility. Together, the two units can process 4.5 billion m³ of gas annually. Eni produced 70,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) in Congo in 2025 and expects output to reach 110,000 boepd by the end of 2026.

Beyond exports, natural gas is central to domestic electricity generation. Eni operates the 484-MW Centrale Électrique du Congo, using gas from the M’Boundi field and accounts for 70% of the country’s power generation capacity. However, electricity supply remains constrained: Brazzaville faces a production shortfall of more than 130 MW against an estimated demand of 260 MW.

With proven natural gas reserves estimated at 100 billion m³, Congo has scope to attract investment in additional gas-to-power capacity, gas processing and associated infrastructure.

Power Distribution Infrastructure

Beyond power generation, the country offers investment opportunities in the rehabilitation and modernization of its electricity transmission and distribution networks. Congo’s electricity crisis, reflects a series of major failures across the network operated by state utility Énergie Électrique du Congo (E2C). Recent checks by Congo’s telecommunications regulator found that operators’ sites received an average of nine hours of grid electricity per day. Only around 600 MW of installed generation capacity is considered available, while network losses reached 45% in 2022.

The government is therefore pursuing reforms at E2C alongside investment in transmission and distribution infrastructure. The World Bank-backed $100 million Electricity Services Improvement Project, launched in 2025, targets rehabilitation of the 220-kV transmission line connecting Pointe-Noire and Brazzaville, upgrades to substations and improvements to distribution services.

With opportunities spanning the full energy value chain, the Republic of Congo is increasingly being put on the radar of investors assessing prospects across Africa. From oil and gas to power generation and distribution, the country offers investment opportunities across a range of project sizes and capital requirements. CEIF 2027 will bring together government representatives, international operators, investors and service providers to discuss these opportunities and advance commercial partnerships across the country’s energy sector.

Organized by Energy Capital & Power in collaboration with the Ministry of Hydrocarbons, CEIF 2027 will enable candid dialogue, facilitating new investments and deals in the country’s energy sector. For more information, visit https://CongoEnergyInvestment.com.

LAGOS, Nigeria, November 5, 2026/APO Group/ –Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) WKND 2026 has opened today in Lagos, bringing together leading creatives, investors, policymakers, business leaders and cultural figures from across Africa and the diaspora for four days of conversations, deal-making, performances, exhibitions and industry-focused sessions.

 




  

Hosted by the Federal Government of Nigeria and organised by African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) through its Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) programme, this year’s event runs from 5 to 8 November under the theme “One People, United in Culture, Creating for the World.”

The 2026 programme spans film and television, music, fashion, sport, literature and publishing, gastronomy and visual arts, with a strong focus on finance, intellectual property, technology, skills, investment and market access.

Across the four-day programme, CANEX WKND will provide platforms for deal-making, industry dialogue and sector-specific engagement, including the CANEX Deal Room, with the aim of turning creative talent and ideas into stronger businesses, partnerships and commercial opportunities.

That ambition reflects the evolution of Afreximbank’s commitment to Africa’s creative and cultural industries in 2020, subsequently doubling this to US$1 billion before quadrupling the original commitment financing available to US$2 billion.

The expansion reflects Afreximbank’s wider objective of helping African creators and creative businesses build scalable enterprises, strengthen ownership of intellectual property and retain more of the economic value generated by African culture and creativity.

The opening ceremony is expected to feature addresses by Ministers of Culture and Creative Industries across 11 African countries, Dr George Elombi, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Afreximbank, H.E. Dr Olajumoke Omoniyi Oduwole, Nigeria’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, H.E. Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat, and H.E. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Governor of Lagos State among other dignitaries.

The programme will bring together some of Africa and the diaspora’s most influential cultural and industry figures. Participants include Nobel Laureate, writer and playwright Professor Wole Soyinka; Emmy Award-winning actor Uzo Aduba; filmmaker and actor Funke Akindele; actors Richard Mofe-Damijo and Thuso Mbedu; former professional footballers Didier Drogba and Jay-Jay Okocha; alongside leading figures from Africa’s music, film, fashion, sport and creative business sectors.

The event will also include performances and appearances from musicians and entertainers such as Davido, Fally Ipupa, Flavour, Libianca and Charlotte Dipanda, reflecting CANEX WKND’s combination of industry engagement with live cultural programming.

Beyond the headline names, the programme places a strong emphasis on the business of Africa’s creative economy.

On 6 November, a high-level conversation titled “One Market, One Culture: Building the Creative Economy of Global Africa” will examine the steps required to convert the growing global influence of African culture into stronger creative businesses, exports and investment. Speakers include Professor Wole Soyinka; ministers responsible for culture and the arts from Côte d’Ivoire, South Africa and Rwanda; International Finance Corporation representatives; and from Afreximbank.

Financing will also be central to the programme. The Creative Economy Finance Summit, presented by Afreximbank in partnership with the Creative Economy Practice at Co-Creation Hub, will bring financial institutions and investors together to examine how creative-economy transactions can be structured, financed and de-risked.

CANEX Creations Inc. will lead discussions on unlocking investment in African intellectual property, while the CANEX Deal Room and Creative Pitch Sessions will connect creative entrepreneurs directly with financiers and investors considering opportunities across film and television, music, fashion, sport, publishing, gastronomy, visual arts and creative infrastructure. Technology and the changing economics of creative production will feature prominently. Sessions will examine artificial intelligence, authorship and intellectual property; the use of technology to reshape creative businesses; and how African creators can use digital tools to develop globally competitive products.

The CANEX CreaThon, delivered with pan-African technology company Gebeya, will bring creators, developers and innovators together around projects in music, video and gaming, supported by African-built digital tools, mentorship, computing resources and a US$50,000 prize pool. Film and television programming will explore both storytelling and the commercial infrastructure required to take African content to wider audiences. Sessions include “Stories Without Borders: Africa, Hollywood & the Global Diaspora”, featuring former Afreximbank President Professor Benedict Oramah, and “Made in Africa, Watched in Africa”, which will examine research into film distribution, audiences and financing across Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa.

Sport will form another major strand of CANEX WKND 2026. Discussions will examine athlete development, management, commercialisation and the links between sport and the broader creative economy. Didier Drogba and Jay-Jay Okocha are scheduled to participate in “When Giants Speak: The Business of the Game,” while the weekend will conclude with a Legends Football Match at Onikan Stadium on 8 November. Fashion programming will include masterclasses on building profitable African brands, textile value chains, market access and intellectual property, alongside the CANEX Fashion Show and Awards Night.

In gastronomy, the CANEX Junior Chefs Competition, Africa Jollof Wars Competition and a series of live demonstrations and conversations will explore how African food, ingredients and culinary traditions can become stronger commercial propositions across domestic, continental and global markets. Publishing and literature will feature through the CANEX Book Factory, Book Fair, writers’ workshops, manuscript pitching and the CANEX Prize for Publishing, while visual arts programming will combine exhibitions, collector engagement and practical sessions for artists navigating Africa’s growing art ecosystem.

On 7 November, CANEX WKND 2026 will host a major concert bringing together artists from across Africa and the diaspora, before the programme continues into its final day on 8 November with cultural excursions, gastronomy activities, the CANEX Music Factory Songwriting Camp and the Legends Football Game.

WINDHOEK, Namibia, November 5, 2026/APO Group/ –As Namibia continues to face recurring droughts and growing water demand, the country’s water resources are under increasing pressure. Windhoek is situated in one of the most water-stressed regions in sub-Saharan Africa, where low and unpredictable rainfall, combined with high evaporation rates, continues to challenge water availability and long-term water security.[1]

 




  

To help address these shared water challenges, the Coca-Cola system is investing USD 1.22 million in the //Gam-i Swakop Basin Resilience Project, designed to help strengthen water security and support ecosystem restoration in the Swakop River Basin, a vital water source for the city of Windhoek and surrounding communities.

The //Gam-i Swakop Basin Resilience Project aims to support improved water availability and help strengthen the resilience of the Swakop River Basin through nature-based solutions that support sustainable water resource management across the catchment area.

Implemented in collaboration with the Global Water Challenge (GWC) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Namibia, the project includes the construction of two sand storage dams, restoration of 235 hectares of land through the clearing of invasive alien plants, and the planting of 750 trees in river buffer zones and environmentally degraded areas within Windhoek’s informal settlements. In addition, two boreholes will be drilled to support groundwater recharge in the Windhoek aquifer, and a water resilience action plan has been developed.

This work forms part of the Coca-Cola system’s Africa Water Stewardship Initiative, launched in 2024. The initiative represents a nearly USD 25 million investment focused on helping address critical water-related challenges across 20 African countries by 2030.

“Because water challenges are local, our approach to water security is focused on local action and collaboration,” said Alfred Olajide, Vice President of East and Central Africa Operations at Coca‑Cola. “The Coca‑Cola system remains focused on helping to promote water stewardship, increasing water use efficiency, and treating and returning safe water to communities.”

Henry Friedrich, General Manager of Coca-Cola Namibia Bottling Company (CCNBC) added: “As part of the Coca-Cola Beverages Africa group, we have a responsibility to assist those who face water scarcity and to help protect local water resources where we operate, especially in places with the biggest challenges. Through the Africa Water Stewardship Initiative, the system aims to help protect important watersheds and to improve access to water and sanitation in local communities.”

WWF Namibia Country Director, Dr Juliane Zeidler, said: “Water is one of Namibia’s most precious and increasingly vulnerable resources. This project is an opportunity to demonstrate how investing in healthy ecosystems can deliver tangible benefits for people, while also helping communities become more resilient to future climate pressures. We hope the lessons and partnerships developed through this initiative can inform similar approaches elsewhere in the country.”

“Collaboration is essential to addressing shared water challenges effectively. Coca-Cola and its authorised bottlers continue to work with governments, businesses, and civil society organisations to design and implement strategic interventions,” concluded Olajide.

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