Next Africa: Dangote Refinery Opens With Fanfare But No Fuel Yet

Desalter tanks at the Dangote Industries oil refinery and fertilizer plant site in Lagos, Nigeria.

Photographer: Benson Ibeabuchi/Bloomberg

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Africa’s richest person commissioned the continent’s largest oil refinery, seven years late and at more than double the $9 billion cost initially planned.