Strategic Thinking on East Africa

by Gregory Alonso Pirio and Robert Pittelli Africa is increasingly becoming a target of Russia’s renewed international assertiveness; its economic and military forays into Africa are often overshadowed, however, by Russian aggression in the Ukraine including the annexation of Crimea and its military backing of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The quieter but dramatic Russian engagement […]

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  Around 100 people have died in South Sudan when a truck carrying petrol exploded, officials have told Al Jazeera. The blast on Thursday in Maridi town is believed to have happened when a crowd gathered to collect fuel from an oil truck that had veered off the road. The truck exploded, leaving scores dead […]

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  September 16, 2015 (KAMPALA) - At least 44,000 people have crossed the River Nile from South Sudan’s oil-rich Unity state into neighbouring territories, a rebel official said. Speaking to Sudan Tribune via satellite phone Wednesday, the rebel-appointed deputy governor of Phow state in Unity state, Johnson Kuol said those fleeing crossed the Nile from […]

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  A Chinese company engaged in natural oil gas exploration with a capital of five billion USD in Ethiopia is expected to produce 40 billion gallon gas after three years. President Dr Mulatu Teshome held talks with Chinese Poly Technology Company Vice President Huang Geming at the National Palace yesterday. President Mulatu said the relationship […]

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KHARTOUM, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) — Sudan on Tuesday announced a new partnership with China to enter into new oil exploration projects and natural gas production at fields in eastern, central and western Sudan, official SUNA news agency reported. “China has agreed to enter into new oil exploration projects and expand its oil operations in the […]

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Workers on a Kenya Pipeline Company extension project. Uganda is playing tough on the crude oil pipeline, with fresh demands that Kenya must first meet its pre-conditions before construction begins. PHOTO/FILE In Summary As the announcement was made in Uganda last month, Uganda’s Energy minister Irene Muloni noted that Kenya contested some of the conditions set […]

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Kenya and Uganda have agreed on the route of a planned pipeline that would carry crude from Ugandan oilfields to the Kenyan coast. The pipeline, when built, will run for about 1,500 kilometers from Uganda’s Hoima district through the Lokichar basin in northern Kenya and to the Kenyan coastal town of Lamu. The East African […]

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From the Financial Times Katrina Manson and Tom Burgis in London A Somali minister wrote to Michael Howard last year requesting “financial support” from the UK oil company which is chaired by the former Conservative party leader and whose payments to Somali officials are now at the centre of a fraud squad investigation. The letter, […]

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By Brian Adeba Posted on August 5, 2015 by AfricanArgumentsEditor The recent move by the Unity State government to expel a UN diplomat for authoring a report that accused the SPLA of human rights abuses in the state follows a long line of controversial happenings that have dogged Unity since the 1980s. The expulsion of foreign individuals deemed undesirable by […]

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Source: Reuters - Wed, 20 May 2015 12:13 GMT Author: Reuters South Sudanese boys displaced by conflict walk along a flooded road between makeshift homes in a camp for internally displaced people at the UNMISS base in Malakal, Upper Nile State, South Sudan, May 30, 2014. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu By Denis Dumo JUBA, May 20 (Reuters) […]

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