Mtwara gas-fired electricity set for export to Maputo

US-based Symbion Power LLC, is currently looking for partners in the construction of a $1.3 billion (about Sh2.7 trillion) power plant in Mtwara that will see Tanzania exporting electricity to a number of countries in the region. 

Security forces fire tear gas inside Nigeria's parliament in an apparent attempt to stop a senior politician from taking part in a debate over militant group Boko Haram.

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...

Police in Freetown, Sierra Leone, fire tear gas as people take to the streets to complain about the authorities' handling of the Ebola virus.

Police in Kenya fire teargas at school children and parents protesting over a 'land-grab' of their playground by a private developer.

Tanzania should establish more laboratories for examining and certifying grains for exports, experts have advised.

Activities in Mtwara came to a standstill yesterday as traders, transporters and other service providers staged a strike to remember their fellows who were killed during last year’s gas riots over gas pipeline.

Construction of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant in Mtwara will take seven years from 2015, The Citizen on Saturday learnt yesterday.

>Australia’s Bounty Oil and Gas has said that it expects commercial gas production from the Kiliwani North Gas Project in Mtwara to begin early next year at an initial rate of 20 million cubic feet per day.