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Africa's Quest to Find 'Black Gold' Intensifying
Gas pipeline (file photo): The continent has never been more attractive to an ambitious explorer for oil and gas as more discoveries of these important resources are made.
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East Africa: U.S. Energy Trade Mission to Explore Investment
The United States is sending an energy trade mission to Mozambique, Tanzania, Nigeria and Ghana to look at potential investment projects.
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Malawi's Fuel and Foreign Exchange Black Market Boom
Coal vendor: The black market dealing in fuel and foreign exchange is gaining support as the country suffers severe shortages.
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Can Diaspora Bonds Boost Development
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Diaspora remittances are a key foreign exchange earner for Africa with U.S.$40 billion flowing from the west annually. Africa is financing infrastructure, education and health projects through diaspora bonds.
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Top Headlines
- Nigeria: Niger Delta Militants Blow Up Pipeline, Threaten South African Firms (Vanguard)
- South Sudan: Juba Looks South to Export Oil (African Arguments)
- Egypt: Chinese Feed Illegal Ivory Trade (IPS)
- Nigeria: Anxiety Over Mend Fresh Attack in Bayelsa (The Moment)
- South Africa: ANC Proposes Changes to Mining Sector (SAPA)
- Nigeria: OPEC Quota Under Threat As Militants Resume Hostility (Leadership)
- Tanzania: Special Report - Uncertainty Clouds Future of the Local Leather Sector (Citizen)
- Nigeria: Cash-Strapped, FG Can't Pay Workers' Salaries (Leadership)
- Nigeria: Foreign Reserves Rise to U.S.$34.67 Billion (Leadership)
- Tanzania: Analysts - Economic Woes to Boost Gold (Citizen)
- Sudan: President Bashir - the Belligerent Eye of a Perfect Storm (iMaverick)
- Ghana: Oil Revives Prostitution (RNW Africa)
- Uganda: Government Needs a Policy Review On Salaries (Monitor)
- Nigeria: Three Arraigned for Killing Man Over Argument On Subsidy Removal (Daily Trust)
- Nigeria: MEND Resumes Hostilities (Vanguard)
- Nigeria: MEND Attacks Agip Facility, Threatens MTN, SacOil (This Day)
- Nigeria: Mass Spam Declines, Targeted Attacks On the Rise - Report (Daily Trust)
- Kenya: Diaspora Cash Hurts Economy, Study Shows (Nation)
- Kenya: Firm Opposes Planned Chemical Ban (Nation)
- Tanzania: Lyimo - Eiu Democracy Index - With 'Studies' Like This, Who Needs Fiction Writers? (Citizen)
- Nigeria: Fuel Scarcity Looms as Import Volumes Drop (This Day)
- Tanzania: U.S. Energy Investors Set to Pay Dar a Visit (Citizen)
- Tanzania: Go Back to Work, Sheikh Urges Docs (Citizen)
- Tanzania: Kikwete Reassures Petty Traders of Support (Daily News)
- Uganda: Only Youth Should Access Shs25 Billion Venture Fund (Monitor)
- Angola: Public Official Goes Shopping With State Money (Fahamu)
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ACBF
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- ACBF Further Invests in Strengthening the Public Sector in West Africa
- ACBF's African Membership Increases Ethiopia Becomes the 36th African Member
Ecowas
- ECOWAS New Commissioners Assume Office
- ECOWAS Press Release On the Forthcoming Presidentiel Election in the Republic of Senegal
- ECOWAS Statement On Recent Terrorist Attacks in Nigeria
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