From Oman with love :: Mmegi Online

With the president of Oman’s $53 billion sovereign wealth fund in the audience on Thursday, President Duma Boko celebrated a major economic win and spoke of sleepless nights, hard travail in clinching the massive energy deal. He also berated ‘naysayers, doomwatchers’. MBONGENI MGUNI writes

President Duma Boko was in his trademark emphatic element on Thursday, launching the groundbreaking of the country’s largest renewable energy project which comes with the first utility scale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS).

That the mammoth 500-megawatt project and associated BESS has moved from preliminary discussions in October 2025, to groundbreaking on site in April, is not just breakneck speed of delivery, but a feather in the cap for Boko who has set aside his administration’s second year in office for “execution” and the removal of bottlenecks towards that.

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From Oman with love

With the president of Oman’s $53 billion sovereign wealth fund in the audience on Thursday, President Duma Boko celebrated a major economic win and spoke of sleepless nights, hard travail in clinching the massive energy deal. He also berated ‘naysayers, doomwatchers’. MBONGENI MGUNI writes

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