How lake gases are powering homes in Rwanda

During the U.S. Africa Head of State Summit this week in Washington, D.C., the Government of Rwanda’s Energy Water and Sanitation Authority (EWSA) awarded Symbion Power a 50 megawatt Independent Power Production (IPP) project using methane gas from Lake Kivu, it was announced today by Paul Hinks, Chief Executive Officer, Symbion Power.
Symbion will build, own and operate a 50 MW power station by constructing gas extraction facilities to lift, separate, and process methane gas, which is...

Africa has achieved exceptional economic growth over the past decade, averaging 4.5 percent a year and underpinned by prudent macroeconomic management.  Now we must achieve economic growth that is accompanied by significantly less poverty and greater prosperity for all the people of the continent.
With new discoveries of oil, gas, and minerals seemingly every month, we need to be able to extract, market, and invest the new-found earnings from these resources in higher quality education,...

TOL Gases Limited is mulling to start selling its products to Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe as the company’s 2014 profit more than doubles.

TOL Gases, a manufacturer and distributor of industrial and medical gases in Tanzania, posted a Sh998 million profit after tax in 2013, being a five per cent increase compared with the previous year’s.

May 5th, 2015, The Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) in partnership with the US Embassy Dar es Salam have awarded a total amount of 15,000 USD to the Winners of the Powering Africa Research Competition in a special ceremony at COSTECH Head quarters Kijitonyama Dar es Salaam
This is one of the measures towards realizing Power Africa initiative, the programme that was announced in 2013 by President of the US, Mr. Barrack Obama when he visited Tanzania.
Jury Chairperson of...

Mwanamuziki mashuhuri nchini Rwanda Kizito Mihigo alikamatwa akidaiwa kujaribu kuvuka mpaka kuingia Burundi kinyume cha sheria.

Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania Dkt. Jakaya Kikwete (kushoto) akimkaribisha rasmi Balozi mpya wa Rwanda nchini Tanzania,Balozi Eugene Segore Kayihura alipowasilisha hati za utambulisho Ikulu jijini Dar es salaam. Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania Dkt. Jakaya Kikwete akimkaribisha rasmi Balozi mpya wa Rwanda nchini Tanzania,Balozi Eugene Segore Kayihura… ...

Timu ya waendeshaji baiskeli kutoka Rwanda ilinawiri katika mashindano ya kimataifa ya Tour of Rwanda