... November 2009 The 13th UNCTAD's African Oil, Gas, Minerals, Trade and Finance ... Energy and Mines of Algeria and President of the Council of African Ministers of Energy (CAMEN); Houlin Zhao ... Ibrahim Elham, Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy of the African Union Commission; Gabriel Dansou Lokossou ... African countries possess great stores of geosciences data existing from pre-independence times ...

Teodoro Nguema Obiang, the son of Equatorial Guinean dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasog, who is known for his lavish spending and on-again, off-again relationship with rapper Eve, is said to be seeing his cousin. Pop the top for more on this weirder than weird story. According to sources close to Teodoro Nguema Obiang, he is dropping major stacks on his new girlfriend who people also believe ...

Emirates' 18th destination in Africa, oil-rich Angola, came on stream with the launch of flights to Luanda. Amongst the VIP delegation joining the inaugural flight from Dubai were Nigel Page, Emirates' Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations, Americas and Africa; Rui Mangueira, the Angolan Ambassador to the UAE; Julio Maiato, Angola's Consul General in Dubai and Salah Sharaf, ...

“If we hadn’t discovered oil, we would have been better off today. Once we had oil, our agriculture sector collapsed. Oil has made us lazy …. We have become corrupted" – Former Minister of State for Finance in Nigeria, Mrs Nedadi Usman (Credit- Jonathan Power: The perils of African oil. 2004). The

... up Mann, who was a career British officer until forming an African mercenary outfit following his 'retirement' ... . Obiang - who makes an astonishing £40million a day from oil - calculated that releasing Mann unharmed would prove a ... the international stage. He has also been under pressure from the U.S., which has huge oil and gas concerns in his country. Although some of his aides pressed him ...

... late on Friday. While Central Africa's largely oil-producing economies are still far from having overcome the global slow-down ... told reporters. Andely said the BEAC (Bank of Central African States) was for now keeping its interest rate on hold at 4 ... have long pointed out that few energy-producing African countries have so far managed to use their oil wealth to relieve the widespread poverty ...