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ENVIRONMENT-NIGERIA: Playing With Fire Analysis by Khadija Sharife DURBAN - Nigeria's gas flare-out date has once again been extended - this time to 2011. The decision follows 25 years of political procrastination by the federal government and illegal behaviour on the part of major oil multinationals engaged in flaring associated gas (AG), the byproduct of oil production in the Niger Delta. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT-MAURITIUS: Hold Your Fire By Nasseem Ackbarally * - IPS/IFEJ PORT-LOUIS - Mauritius appears to have a happy problem with the 400,000 tons of waste it produces each year. The island’s only landfill is full and the government must decide whether to turn to incinerating waste - generating electricity in the process - or to compost it, to the benefit of farmers. MORE >>
AFRICA: FAO Paper On Land Grab Is "Wishy-Washy" By Julio Godoy BERLIN - The boom in the acquisition of arable land in Africa by foreign companies and governments has stirred an international debate between international institutions such as the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and non-governmental groups and independent experts. MORE >>
SPAIN-EQUATORIAL GUINEA: More Trade, Little Pressure By Tito Drago MADRID - Trade between Spain and Equatorial Guinea is flourishing, amidst calls by activists for the government of Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to push for democracy in this tiny country on the Atlantic coast of Africa, still under the yoke of dictatorship. MORE >>
TRADE: Crisis Pushing Emerging Markets to Move Beyond the Dollar Kester Kenn Klomegah interviews VIKTOR POLIKARPOV of the Russia-South Africa Business Council MOSCOW - The global economic crisis is pushing countries in regions with emerging markets, such as Russia and South Africa, to together move beyond the dollar-based economic model. Given their politico-economic similarities, these two countries should build on opportunities to share expertise and technology. MORE >>
POLITICS-GABON: Will Bongo’s Death Signal a New Chapter? Analysis by Arsène Séverin BRAZZAVILLE - As Omar Bongo Ondimba, the Gabonese president who died at age 73 in Barcelona on Jun. 8, is buried in Franceville in the south-west of Gabon on Thursday, his 41-year-reign as absolute ruler of this oil-producing country of 1.5 million has received mixed reviews. MORE >>
ENERGY: South African Government Edging Towards Renewable Sources By Stephanie Nieuwoudt CAPE TOWN - South Africa is slowly moving towards exploring renewable energy sources, having set itself a target of three percent of energy being generated from renewable sources by 2013. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: The Second Scramble For Africa Starts By Julio Godoy BERLIN - Sub-Saharan African countries have of late become the target of a new form of investment that is strongly reminiscent of colonialism: investors from both industrialised and emerging economies buy or lease large tracts of farm land across the continent, either to guarantee their own food provisions or simply as yet another business. MORE >>
ENERGY: Africa Will Have to Feed EU’s Artificial Biofuels Demand By Hilaire Avril PARIS - Earlier in the decade, biofuels were hailed as the energy panacea, the silver bullet to solve oil shortages and abide by environmental concerns. The European Union recently took the lead in imposing the use of these liquid or gaseous fuels made from plants. MORE >>
AFRICA: New North-South Corridor To Tackle Trade Bottle-Necks By Kelvin Kachingwe LUSAKA - Africa’s contribution to the global economy will continue to be low if there is no investment in infrastructure, delegates heard at the North-South Corridor Conference in Lusaka, where 1.2 billion dollars was raised. MORE >>
TRADE: ‘‘Russia Should Extend More Preferences to Nigeria’’ By Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW - As cooperation between Nigeria and Russia is strengthened, Russia should consider extending preferences to some goods from Nigeria to further boost trade between the two oil producers, according to the deputy director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’s Institute for African Studies, Professor Dmitri Bondarenko. MORE >>
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