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Angola's oil only benefits elite, says Abel Chivukuvuku
15/05/2013 - African news explained

Angola's oil only benefits elite, says Abel Chivukuvuku

Angola, which is an OPEC member, is well-known as Africa's second oil producer after Nigeria. Its oil is helping power its post-war economic boom. But opposition figure, Abel ...

Oil giant BP reconsiders further investments in Algeria
11/05/2013 - African news explained

Oil giant BP reconsiders further investments in Algeria

Oil giant BP says it is reconsidering further investments in Algeria because of insecurity in the south.

Oil flow resumes between South Sudan and Sudan
29/04/2013 - International report

Oil flow resumes between South Sudan and Sudan

Earlier this month, oil started flowing again between South Sudan and Sudan.

26/04/2013

African press review 26 April 2013

Reactions to Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s picks for cabinet, an amnesty appeal to Boko Haram from Nigeria’s northern governors, the passing of South Africa’s controversial ...

26/04/2013 - France - Equatorial Guinea

Guinea's Obiang loses libel case against French NGO

A French court ruled on Thursday that an Ngo did not libel Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema when it accused him of salting away vast amounts of his country’s ...

26/03/2013

African press review 26 March 2013

The aftermath of Kenya's elections and the Brics summit in South Africa are among the stories in today's African press...

15/03/2013 - Report: France

Activists fear U-turn on French fracking ban

Environmentalists around the world welcomed France's 2001 ban on hydraulic fracturing, the process of extracting gas and oil from shale rock underground more commonly known as fracking.

Anti-fracking protests near Paris
15/03/2013 - On-the-spot France

Anti-fracking protests near Paris

In 2011 France banned fracking (hydraulic fracturing), the process of extracting gas and oil from shale rock deep underground.

New Sudan/South Sudan oil deal likely to hold
13/03/2013 - African news explained

New Sudan/South Sudan oil deal likely to hold

Sudan and South Sudan have signed another deal to restart the flow of oil from south to north. South Sudan last year shut down the pipelines that allow it to export oil via Port Sudan.

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