With the oil sector remaining as the “engine” of the Angolan economy, and with a forecasted decrease in oil production, the new Angolan government has prioritised introducing investor-friendly reforms.

After more than a decade of dispute, on 6 March the governments of Timor-Leste and Australia finally put pen to paper on an agreement to delimit their common maritime boundary.

The Latin American giant generates 76% of its electricity from renewable sources, most of it from hydropower plants located in the Amazon basin.

Mozambique’s slow burning coal revolution has triggered a wave of rail and port projects across the northern half of the country. The presence of coal reserves in Tete Province had long been known but the lack of transport capacity prevented mining in the area until relatively recently.

The government is pushing ahead with its ambition of becoming the first country in the world to source all of its electricity from renewable energy technologies.

With proven reserves of 100 trillion cubic feet, Mozambique ranks 12th among the countries with the largest natural gas proven reserves.