GECF Secretary General, Mohamed Hamel, joins African Energy Week 2025: Invest in African Energies to explore Africa’s gas potential and how investment and cooperation can drive sustainable energy development across the continent
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 13, 2025/APO Group/ --
African Energy Week (AEW) 2025: Invest in African Energies – taking place in Cape Town on September 29-October 3 – welcomes Mohamed Hamel, Secretary General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), to its growing lineup of global energy leaders. Representing the world’s leading gas-exporting nations, the GECF brings a multilateral perspective to critical discussions on Africa’s natural gas potential, energy security and investment opportunities.
Mohamed Hamel, Secretary General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF)
As natural gas continues to emerge as a cornerstone of Africa’s development agenda – driving industrialization, electrification and economic growth – the GECF is playing a pivotal role in shaping the continent’s position in the global energy landscape. African nations are increasingly seen as key players in the global gas market, with expanding LNG projects and diversified energy sources poised to strengthen Africa’s energy security and economic resilience. At the forefront of this shift, the GECF advocates for increased investment and strategic cooperation to unlock Africa’s substantial gas potential, with a focus on monetizing resources responsibly and aligning gas development with the continent’s broader energy transition goals.
Africa’s gas markets are experiencing rapid growth: Algeria, holding the world’s 10th largest gas reserves, is expanding infrastructure to increase gas exports to Europe, targeting 200 billion cubic meters over the next five years. The Republic of Congo is emerging as a regional hub, with the offshore Marine XII gas concession and new LNG export terminals currently under development. Meanwhile, Nigeria – Africa’s largest gas producer – holds over 200 trillion cubic feet of reserves and is increasing LNG production through the NLNG Train 7 expansion, which will boost output by 35%. These nations are at the forefront of transforming Africa into a leading global gas supplier, driving economic growth and energy security across the continent.
While Africa is home to an estimated 620 trillion cubic feet of proven gas reserves, a significant portion remains underdeveloped due to infrastructure, financing and regulatory hurdles. Secretary General Hamel is expected to address how regional and international investment can be mobilized to accelerate project development across the value chain, from upstream exploration to midstream infrastructure and downstream utilization. He will also speak to the GECF’s vision for long-term cooperation, technological advancement and equitable resource monetization across its African member and observer states.
"Africa is on the brink of a transformative shift in its energy landscape, with natural gas poised to play a central role in powering the continent’s future. Through collaboration, innovation and strategic investment, we can unlock Africa’s vast gas potential to drive industrialization, enhance energy security and foster sustainable economic growth. The GECF is committed to supporting these efforts, and AEW 2025 provides a platform to accelerate progress and forge the necessary partnerships,” states NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman of the African Energy Chamber.
The participation of the GECF underscores AEW’s status as the leading platform for policy-driven, investment-focused dialogue. Secretary General Hamel’s insights will add depth to conversations around Africa’s energy transition, highlighting gas as both a transition fuel and a long-term asset in achieving climate-resilient growth. By convening key decision-makers, investors and energy innovators, AEW 2025 serves as the ideal forum to advance partnerships, unlock capital and chart a sustainable and inclusive energy future for Africa – one in which gas plays a defining role.
AEW: Invest in African Energies is the platform of choice for project operators, financiers, technology providers and government, and has emerged as the official place to sign deals in African energy. Visit www.AECWeek.com for more information about this exciting event.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Energy Chamber.
This is very bad, the government should not allow these people to disappear inthe public; they can easily join Al-Shabab again… So, if the government allowed them to go, then they should be under watch of the secret intelligence in Somaliland….
Guys, there are eight Somalilanders in the most senior leaders of Al-Shabab, including the head of Al-Shabab… So, we should watch them very seriously before they explode in our streets.
Forgive me Allah, if i am mistaken.
They were wrongly accused by the American government and they deserve to get their lives back after all they have been through.
i think these are innocent civilians
why are they realesed if they are not cheryy picked at first place
civikl lierty distroyed by bush and dick cheney they shoukd be put in front of court
asl all lawyers dembo
The government should not have just releazed these guys into the main society,they should be interviewed and re-evaluated before letting them go on.__What if they have negative agenda towards Somaliland and it's people?. __
Abdulrahman, Wake up, did you read the story or not? (spent years) in Guantanamo Bay!! and if the Americans believed that they were guilty of anything, do you seriously think that they would be sending the home?
You need to understand, that you or I, in fact anyone is at risk of being falsely accused and imprisoned in the cause of defeating terrorism! the reality of this is that you loses your freedom, your rights and your family for years on end. And then your released with a blackened name and forced to sign a declaration not to sue the your former host, whom so kindly denied your constitutional rights and who in all-probability tortured you beating you into submission.
I love America and love the Constitution, but the moment we as a nation undertook an expedition into the dark-side of torturing human beings and caging them like animals, we lost the real war – safe guarding democracy, freedom and true justice!!!
So, before you think about celebrating the removal of human rights and caging and torturing people, take a deep long look at the bill of rights and the constitution of the United States, I am absolutely positive you'll see that it mentions nothing about caging, beating and torturing anyone let alone a Somaliander incarcerated in Cuba.
Only a fool laughs at his own jokes Martin(Puntland guy)..Shows the maturity of Somaliland. Can't send them to Somalia, they will only join radicals there, can't send them to Puntland, they will only become pirates, send them to a democratic and stable country, Somaliland. I think the detainees requested Somaliland anyway.
Abdulrahman and Obsiye, you two seem bit paranoid and worse than the Americans who humiliated not only these Somaliland nationals but hundrends of other Muslim men. You should be ashamed.
These two men did absolutely nothing they were basically sold by the Pakistani government led by General Musharaf to America. America did not charge them of any crimes, they kept them behind bars for 8 years, is that not enough for you two sick guys?
Even non-Somalis non-Muslims have more sympathy for these two innocent men than you two sickos.
Well done to the Red Cross who took part in freeing these innocent men, and welcome home.
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