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Somalia has denied allegations of auctioning off neighboring Kenya’s oil and gas blocks amidst a simmering diplomatic tiff between the two countries. Somalia’s president, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo The denial comes barely a day after Kenya summoned its ambassador to Somalia while expelling the Somalia envoy. In a…
South Africa wants to talk to independent power producers (IPPs) about lowering the price Eskom pays for electricity from older renewable energy projects, a senior minister told Reuters. The logo of state power utility Eskom is seen outside the Koeberg nuclear power plant near Cape Town, South…
Fellow miners have been using their bare hands to remove debris in an effort to free some 40 gold miners who have been trapped for a week, a spokesman for Liberia’s disaster management agency said Sunday. Authorities are now trying to arrange for an excavator to help in the rescue effort in Gbonipea, located…
Ethiopia and Djibouti have signed a deal to build a pipeline to transport Ethiopian gas to an export terminal in the Red Sea state, officials said. Ethiopia found extensive gas deposits in its eastern Ogaden Basin in the 1970s. China’s POLY-GCL Petroleum Investments has been developing the Calub and Hilala…
A Sudanese parliamentary committee has postponed a meeting on amending the country’s constitution to allow President Omar al-Bashir to run for a new term. The session, set for Sunday, has been shelved for the time being, the official SUNA news agency said, without giving a new date. Bashir, who is facing nationwide protests against his three-decade rule, is considering running for…
