The Energy Republic

São Paulo, Brazil–(Newsfile Corp. – May 18, 2026) – Sigma Lithium Corporation (NASDAQ: SGML) (TSXV: SGML) (BVMF: S2GM34) (“Sigma Lithium” or the “Company”), the largest producer of lithium oxide concentrate in the Americas¹ and dedicated to industrializing socially and environmentally sustainable lithium materials to supply global produc...

The Ubuntuverse Institute (https://Ubuntuversal.org/) today released The 3 Trillion Corporate Advocacy PlayBook: Africa’s 10× CAMPs Accelerating Just Clean Energy’s Green Industrialisation, a field-defining framework charting how corporate actors can unlock the continent’s $3 trillion clean energy opportunity. Drawing on evidence from the IEA, IRENA, the African Development Bank...

Shell and its subsidiaries paid the Nigerian government a total of $2.016 billion in 2025 through production entitlements, royalties, taxes, and statutory fees, according to the company’s latest Payments to Governments Report. The report showed that Nigeria received $1.237 billion in production entitlements, representing the largest share of payments made by the energy giant dur...

Each year, the African Energy Industry’s “African Energy Person of the Year” award celebrates individuals who have positively influenced Africa’s energy sector by facilitating projects that strengthen energy security, African development, energy additions, free markets, limited government, economic resilience, the prosperity of families, local content and improve African energy ...

Multinational commodities company Trafigura signed an offtake agreement in April 2026 with Ghana’s Heath Goldfields for the Bogoso-Prestea Gold Mine, committing to purchase around 700,000 ounces of gold. The deal provides immediate commercial certainty for the project while improving its financing profile by guaranteeing a long-term buyer, addressin...