Angola's Vice-President and former CEO of state-run oil company, Sonangol, Manuel Vicente, is being considered as one of possible presidential successors, following the announcement that the current head of the country, José Eduardo dos Santos, may resign by 2018.

Tanzania's presidential candidate John Magufuli has pledged to remove impediments related to the site of a planned LNG plant

Crippling fuel shortages, power cuts, slowing economic growth and Islamist militants wreaking havoc. Muhammadu Buhari is taking on a tough job when he’s sworn in as Nigeria’s president on Friday.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s concession of defeat in presidential elections has mitigated the risk of an armed uprising in the main oil-producing region by militants who were intent on keeping him in power.

On March 28, Africa’s biggest economy and also the continent’s largest oil producer, Nigeria, will go to the polls to elect its new president.

Oil prices could hit $100 a barrel by the end of next year, U.S. oil magnate T. Boone Pickens said on Tuesday, revising his previous forecast which said they would reach that level as early as this year.