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Nigeria gas projects fight legislative fog
Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has surprised many investors by declining to sign into law the embattled Petroleum Industry Governance Bill. Claiming the bill would divert scarce financial resources from state coffers, Buhari in late August struck a potentially lethal blow...
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Nigeria
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Differences at the top over Côte d’Ivoire utilities
Energy minister Thierry Tanoh is manoeuvring to strengthen his position, after threatening to resign this summer following deep differences with influential presidential adviser Adama Toungara. Tanoh has stayed in President Alassane Ouattara’s ruling coalition despite his...
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Côte d’Ivoire
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Bold reforms required for new Zimbabwe
While President Emmerson Mnangagwa has worked hard to attract investment through his “Zimbabwe is open for business” campaign, critics say his government has offered no significant economic reforms besides the annulment in April of a controversial 2008 law requiring foreigners...
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Zimbabwe
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South Africa: MPRDA to be withdrawn
A cabinet meeting on 19 September approved asking parliament to withdraw a long-delayed bill amending the Mineral & Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA), which has been under discussion since December 2012. Withdrawal of the amendment bill, which had been heavily...
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South Africa
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Energy reforms offer little cheer ahead of Nigeria’s election
The newsflow from Nigeria is, as ever, hectic: political alliances are shifting as President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress splits and the People’s Democratic Party, written off only one election cycle ago, draws back power-brokers; finance minister Kemi Adeosun...
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Nigeria
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Nigeria: First convictions in OPL 245 case
An Italian court has sentenced two middlemen to four years in prison for their role in Royal Dutch Shell and Eni’s 2011 acquisition of OPL 245. Emeka Obi and Gianluca Di Nardo had opted for a fast-track trial, while a larger trial including Royal Dutch Shell, Eni and 13 other...
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Nigeria
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Liberia: EITI suspension
The board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) decided on 4 September to suspend Liberia for failing to publish its EITI report for the year to June 2016 by the 1 July 2018 deadline. The government had asked to extend the deadline, but the board declined,...
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Liberia
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