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Wednesday, May 16, 2012   20:35 GMT    
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By GENEVA
Intra-African Trade or Global Integration: A Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma? - Though the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has long held that trade between African countries is too low, experts at the South Centre, an inter-governmental think tank of developing countries, say intra-continental trade is already significant in manufactured goods and promises a new path to industrialisation.
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By JUBA
Oil Brings New Friction to Sudan and South Sudan - As Sudan and South Sudan meet for the latest round of negotiations featuring oil as a key issue this week, four ships loaded by Khartoum with southern crude are carrying their disputed cargoes to unknown buyers.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
By DURBAN, South Africa
Comprehensive Agreement Beyond Reach - The goal of a comprehensive and binding agreement may be beyond the reach of the 17th United Nations climate change negotiations, says the organisation’s secretary-general Ban Ki-moon.
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By DURBAN, South Africa
Sweden, UK and Germany Top Climate Protectors - Sweden, the United Kingdom and Germany are the top countries to fight climate change, according to the 2012 Climate Change Performance Index, whose results were published at the United Nations climate change summit today.
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By JUBA
Sweden Runs Into South Sudanese Oilgate - Civil society leaders in South Sudan are closely watching a legal battle unfolding in Sweden, as prosecutors investigate an oil company accused of involvement in massive human rights abuses here.
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By FREETOWN
The Rush for Oil in West Africa – The New Wild West? - There is a new oil rush off the coast of West Africa. But there are fears that the sector is not sufficiently regulated, and watchdog groups are raising concerns about transparency and governance in the region.
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By CAPE TOWN
World’s Biggest Hydropower Scheme Will Leave Africans in the Dark - South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to build a major hydroelectric power project, which is said to bring electricity to more than half of the continent’s 900 million people. But economic analysts warn that foreign investors will prevent the grid from benefiting the general public.
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MALAWI
By BLANTYRE
Water Promises Light for Isolated Community - In just a few weeks, seven villages that had expected to remain "in the dark forever" will finally have electricity, courtesy of a small hydroelectric power plant on Lichenya River, one of the major rivers on the eastern slopes of Mulanje Mountain in southern Malawi.
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WEST AFRICA
By BAMAKO
Niger River under Pressure from Dams - Several major new dams are being constructed on the Niger River. It's a positive sign of growing investment in agriculture and energy, but it also has some observers worried.
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WEST AFRICA
By DAKAR
Solar Panels Light Up Remote Villages - Frequent power cuts have led people in rural areas of Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal to turn to solar energy for electricity.
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Q&A
By MIDRAND, South Africa
Sudan and South Sudan Will Resolve Oil Issues - Sudan and South Sudan will eventually agree on a reasonable oil-sharing agreement between the two nations as there has been political will from both sides to find a resolution.
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SOUTH SUDAN
By JUBA
Oil Conflict Threatens to Break Out - The communities living on the South Sudan-Sudan border may face genocide if the conflict between the two countries disputing control of oil reserves is not resolved.
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SUDAN
By KHARTOUM
China Could Oil the Peace Process - China, a major player in the oil industries of South Sudan and Sudan, could use its influence to stop the escalating violence between the two countries that has seen the displacement of thousands of people and a reduction in oil production, a United States State Department official says.
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DR CONGO
By KINSHASA
No Water, No Management, No Power - Frequent power cuts have led to the firing of the board of the Democratic Republic of Congo's national electricity company. But it is not clear if sub-par generation from the Inga hydroelectric power stations supplying the capital Kinshasa is due to poor management or to unusually low water levels in the Congo River.
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WEST AFRICA
By DAKAR
Households Turning to Cow Dung for Energy - There are dusty barrels carefully positioned outside many of the family compounds in the Léona neighbourhood of Kaolack, a city of 20,000 in western Senegal: signs of success for a project to introduce the use of biogas as a source of fuel. Amadou Faye, whose family herds cows, goats and sheep as well as growing groundnuts on the side, is among the early adopters.
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