Rich Links: Oil Theft in Nigeria, Mining Law in South Africa, EITI and More
Trading concessions with “governments in exile” Kilimanjaro Capital, a company registered in Belize, is trying to get investors interested in buying shares of oil and gas concessions bought from...
View ArticleRich Links: Oil and Uranium across Africa
Quite a long list of noteworthy reading material this time around: Falling gold prices lead to job cuts Mining company AngloGold Ashanti Limited will lay off 400 miners in Ghana, reacting to falling...
View ArticleRich Links: Copper in Zambia, Gold in Darfur and more
As always, the best reads from around the ‘net: Zambian copper project results in many disputes An excellent article looks at the many controversies surrounding the Sentinel copper project in Zambia....
View ArticleThe Niger Delta through the eyes of George Osodi
Probably hundreds of reports have been written, published and promoted about the environmental damage that oil production has produced in the Niger Delta. Thousands of pages have been filled with...
View ArticleRich Links: World Bank loan requirements
Leaked World Bank emails reveal plans to ease loan requirements “Ana Revenga, the bank’s vice-president for poverty reduction, says in one of the emails: “It might appear that the bank is interested...
View ArticleThe Sahel Blog on a possible shift in Nigeria’s economic policy
Interesting insight into possible economic policies of Nigeria’s incoming government, as well as some more general points on the perception of African policy making in the West by Alex Thurston: So...
View ArticleGrand corruption: Nigeria’s oil revenues
The Nigerian government just released a Pricewaterhouse Coopers auditing report on one of Nigeria’s biggest corruption scandals of the past decade. Feyi Fawehinmi takes it apart: So what did it find?...
View ArticleReturn to the Source #2: the “they sure read Orwell in Eritrea” edition
This is the transcription of the first edition of Return to the Source, my new podcast on excellent writing about Africa. You can of course also listen to it, or subscribe to it in your podcast app of...
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