Renewables & Finance (Ghana): CIPA Holdings Group won Renewable Energy Solutions & Sustainable Infrastructure Company of the Year at Ghana’s 3rd Business Integrity Awards, with founder Kwaku Osei Sarpong also taking a clean-energy financing leadership prize—highlighting the firm’s push to blend policy, capital and project execution for Ghana’s energy transition. Power & Storage (Egypt): Scatec brought Obelisk’s second phase into commercial operation, completing a 1.125GW solar-plus-storage hybrid (100MW/200MWh battery) under a 25-year US-dollar PPA with Egypt’s transmission utility. Cybersecurity (Africa): Check Point reports African organisations averaged 3,237 cyber attacks per week in July, with ransomware up 87% and energy/utilities among the hardest-hit sectors. Water Security (South Africa): Water Security Africa Johannesburg launches a 2026 programme focused on turning water risk management into bankable resilience projects, with investment and implementation front and centre. Oil & Gas (Libya): Drone attacks hit Libya’s oil and electricity infrastructure, including fires at the Zawiya oil complex, as violence threatens efforts to reunify institutions. Regional Transport (East Africa): Kenya and Tanzania renewed efforts to link SGR lines to landlocked neighbours, aiming to improve connectivity for Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Mining & Environment (Zambia): A study links a 2025 tailings dam failure to toxic releases into the Kafue River system, with communities still living with contamination impacts.