Focus on Namibia Following Discovery of Oil

Climate and the Environment, Headline, Southern Africa

Namib­ia Strikes First Oil  Namib­ia, a nation of about 3 mil­lion peo­ple in South­ern Africa, wants to start pro­duc­ing its own oil in four years. This news comes after Shell, a British multi­na­tion­al oil and gas com­pa­ny struck the country’s first off­shore oil dis­cov­ery at the Graff‑1 well. Hailed as the “final fron­tier” of oil exploration…

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Long-awaited local elections will offer Central Africans opportunity to expand political space

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Local elec­tions in the Cen­tral African Repub­lic (CAR), which have been pend­ing since 1988 and are slat­ed for Sep­tem­ber, will deep­en efforts to decen­tral­ize pow­er and expand polit­i­cal space, the UN envoy for the coun­try told the Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil on Tues­day, encour­ag­ing the new Gov­ern­ment to “deploy all pos­si­ble efforts” to calm the polit­i­cal climate.

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After Years of Conflict, Libya Struggles for Unity

Elections and Democracy, Finance and Economics, Headline, Human Rights, North Africa, Opinion

An African Nation Con­tend­ing with Two Gov­ern­ments Ten­sions in Libya have risen again with the appoint­ment of a new Pre­mier, Fathi Bashagha, by the Par­lia­ment in Tobruk. Bashagha is now con­tend­ing for the posi­tion with Abdel Hamid Dbeibah, an UN-rec­og­nized leader. After the announce­ment, Bashagha went to Tripoli air­port to deliv­er his inau­gur­al speech as…

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