February 04, 2011
Uganda: Working to Avoid the 'Resource Curse'
Uganda stands to be the latest African country to benefit from newly discovered resources of oil. If used successfully, the nation’s petroleum reserves could spur development… Read more »
December 17, 2010
Ghana: Mills Complained to U.S. About Oil Company
President John Atta Mills complained to the United States in February this year about the behaviour of an oil company involved in the exploitation of the country's oil resources,… Read more »
October 17, 2010
Liberia: Chevron Takes Another Step in Investment
A team from the Chevron Corporation has concluded a fact-finding mission in Liberia, following up its sealing of a three-year oil exploration deal with the government of President… Read more »
September 23, 2010
Sudan: U.S. Congress Members Urge Obama Administration to Define Policy
Members of the U.S. Congress on Thursday sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging his administration to "take additional steps" to define its policy on Sudan and to "publicly… Read more »
August 27, 2010
Liberia: Government Signs Up Chevron as Oil Exploration Partner
Moving closer to joining the growing ranks of African oil producers, Liberia has selected one of the world's largest oil companies as lead partner to explore potential offshore… Read more »
June 29, 2010
Egypt: Oil Spill Devastates Resort Coast
A devastating oil spill in the Red Sea has polluted beaches along the Egyptian resort coast known as “British Hurghada”. Environmentalists report that… Read more »
January 27, 2010
Nigeria: Electoral Reform Key to Fighting Extremism - Former Minister
The disappearance of President Umaru Yar'Adua to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment for the past nine weeks – without thought to orderly constitutional succession – has… Read more »
January 05, 2010
Sudan: Major U.S. Company Divests Over Rights Violations
A major American financial services company, TIAA-CREF, has divested from four Asian energy companies doing business with the Sudanese government due to concerns about human… Read more »
November 30, 2009
Nigeria: Yar'Adua Should Draw Up Roadmap to Delta Peace
For the first time in years, Nigeria's Niger Delta seems to be looking up. Read more »
August 11, 2009
Nigeria: As Clinton Arrives, New Partnership with U.S. Beckons
"Nigeria is the most important country in Africa, bar none." This statement was made by Johnnie Carson, the new United States Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, shortly… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Clinton Set on Ending Sexual Violence
The United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, travelled to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Tuesday, determined to press "very hard" for an end to… Read more »
July 22, 2009
Sudan: Tribunal Cuts Size of Disputed Abyei Region
An international tribunal has cut the size of the disputed Abyei region of Sudan, rejecting the formal claims of both north and south Sudan and slicing at least 18,000 square… Read more »
June 09, 2009
Nigeria: Shell Settles Saro-Wiwa Case
After more than a decade of legal battles, the Royal Dutch Shell oil company has agreed to pay an out-of-court settlement in a case in which it was accused of committing human… Read more »
February 13, 2009
Nigeria: Young Governor Re-Brands Niger Delta
Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, the governor of Nigeria's Rivers State in the oil-rich Niger Delta, has vowed to transform his state from one marred by violence to one marked by… Read more »
October 03, 2008
Nigeria: Rewarding Non-Violence in the Niger Delta
At a time of historically high oil prices, a model has emerged in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta that could allow more than a million barrels per day of production to come back… Read more »
May 07, 2008
Nigeria: Obama Denies Comment on Delta Militants
The campaign of United States presidential candidate Barack Obama has denied reports that Obama appealed to a militant group to end hostilities in the Niger Delta. Read more »
December 07, 2007
Nigeria: 'Brothers At Each Others' Throats'
Roy Mog-Appia's attention is focused on a sheet of white paper, where he scribbles hastily. A few minutes later, he slides the notepad across the table. Read more »
December 03, 2007
Gabon: Uncertainty Looms as Bongo Marks 40 Years of Power
Gabon faces an uncertain economic and political future after marking the 40th anniversary of President Omar Bongo Ondimba’s accession to power on Sunday. Read more »
August 22, 2007
Nigeria: Security Challenges Yar'Adua Administration
After nearly three months in office, President Umaru Yar'Adua is promising big improvements for Nigeria's economy, but growth has been hampered by a crippling strike and… Read more »
May 25, 2006
Africa: The Scramble for African Oil
After decades of Cold War, when Africa was simply viewed as a convenient pawn on the global chessboard, and a further decade of benign neglect in the 1990s, the African continent… Read more »
July 29, 2005
Nigeria: Biafra War Echoes in Claims for Resource Control, Independence
The Biafra War seems to be part of Nigeria's distant past, but the fear of violence and the idea of partition are still present among citizens of Africa's most populous nation.… Read more »
May 17, 2005
Africa: Mandela's Powerful Message - 'Africa's Time Has Come'
As people begin to line up in movie theaters to visit galaxies far, far away in the final chapter of Star Wars, Nelson Mandela comes to America to remind us of a continent right… Read more »
April 11, 2005
Sudan: Opportunity to Jump-Start Sudan May Be Lost Over Darfur - U.S. Negotiator
After decades of neglect, world attention has recently focused on Sudan, Africa's largest country with a land area about one-quarter the size of the United States. A peace… Read more »
February 25, 2005
Nigeria: 'Richer' Relationship the Result of Nigeria's Democratic Transformation, Despite Flaws, Says U.S. Ambassador
For the past nine months, the U.S. ambassador to Nigeria has been John Campbell, a career foreign service officer who was serving as deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of… Read more »
January 28, 2005
Angola: Book Outlines Trees, Misses the Forest
Angola: Anatomy of an Oil State. Tony Hodges. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 236 pp. $22.95. Read more »