Focus on Namibia Following Discovery of Oil

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…

In Case You Missed It: 3/21/16 — 3/27/16

The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and about Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up. In this week’s news, more than half of Kenyans believe cor­rup­tion is high, and the Unit­ed Nations lists Africa’s hap­pi­est coun­tries. Unit­ed Nations Rank The Hap­pi­est African Coun­tries The Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Solu­tions Net­work has released the World…