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For Africans who depend on the environment for their livelihoods, human security is more closely tied in with the effects of climate change than it is elsewhere.

Business leaders breathed a collective sigh of relief as post-election calm suggested the investment climate would remain stable with the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in control after the 5-6 September general election. Final results, released on 17 September, showed that the

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative will hold its fourth international conference in Doha on 16-18 February 2009.

In-fighting within the political class rarely surfaces in public, but it remains a significant factor in Egyptian decision-making.

Its power is substantial, but Libya’s National Oil Corporation currently has no plans to extend its remit overseas according to the model established by Russia’s Gazprom and is now being enthusiastically followed by Algeria’s Sonatrach and in a smaller way by Tunisia’s Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activités Pétrolières (Etap).

NOC head Shukri Ghanem’s authority has been enhanced by his adroit steering of the Libyan parastatal through some very choppy waters following Muammar Qadhafi’s decision to radically overhaul government in his Jamahiriya.

Presidential adviser on energy Rilwanu Lukman has said he expects final government approval of his report on the restructuring of the Nigerian hydrocarbons sector “in the next week or two”.

Slightly later than expected, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has sought to placate the very different, often conflicting, demands of building SA’s economy according to international benchmarks and protecting millions of poor consumers from the worst depredations of transition to a hard-knuckles market economy. Nersa on 18 June agreed a 13.3% average tariff increase for Eskom Holdings Ltd

French partnership agreement; Sudan and China have signed eight agreements

Côte d’Ivoire has joined the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative; New PM as Conte’s circle consolidates.

Nigerian energy officials have taken important steps to move forward key policy goals, despite reports of delays and in-fighting across the Yar’Adua administration.

The new government named after last year’s violent general strike is keen to speed up the revision of oil and mining contracts, but is meeting resistance from President Conté’s inner circle, writes Our Conakry Correspondent.

A major challenges to the status of Somalia’s autonomous Somaliland and Puntland territories is the dispute over the Sool and eastern Sanaag regions, which are believed to be oil-rich.

Oil means everything to Puntlanders, who believe its discovery will lift the Somali region’s people out of poverty, transform the economy into a Dubai-style success story and unite all Somalis.

IOCs and consumer governments are indulging in intense speculation about Gazprom’s Nigerian love-in, with indications that Moscow might also revive co-operation with Algeria and invest big in several other African gas plays.