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…

Coverage Shows How and Why Africa Got Cheated at COP26

Climate and the Environment, Finance and Economics, Headline, Opinion

The 2021 UN-orga­nized Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence or COP26 was held from Octo­ber 31 to Novem­ber 13 in Glas­gow, Unit­ed King­dom.  As a region most vul­ner­a­ble to the effects of cli­mate change, cov­er­age on Africa’s agen­da at COP26 focused on cli­mate finance and jus­tice. Going into COP26, the African Group of Nego­tia­tor’s mes­sage to devel­oped nations was…