AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 hours agoBRICS Diplomacy: Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will attend the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on Sept. 12-13, joining the bloc’s expanding outreach that now includes 11 full members and multiple partners—an effort to build alternatives to Western-led institutions. Kenya Power Push (LNG): Dangote Industries is in talks with Kenya to scale up a planned LNG power plant at the Lamu refinery project to 1,000MW, using LNG from Tanzania via pipeline or tankers, aiming to ease electricity shortages and support industrial baseload supply. Uganda Oil Governance: Uganda’s Petroleum Authority appoints veteran regulator Fred Kabanda as Executive Director, effective Dec. 1, as the country moves toward commercial oil production. Digital Sovereignty to Investment: Nigeria’s NITDA says its National Cloud Infrastructure Strategy is meant to turn data-sovereignty rules into predictable, investable demand for cloud, data centres and connectivity. Climate Rule-of-Law: UNEP says countries are increasingly turning “just transition” pledges into laws and institutions, urging environmental rule-of-law approaches across energy and mining. Oil Price Pressure: Brent crude pushed past $100 amid Middle East tensions, raising renewed concern over fuel and power costs across import-dependent economies.
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