By Ali-Masmadi | June 29, 2015 at 2:06 pm | No comments
Ali-Masmadi Jehu-Appiah, 29th June 2015
Nineteen African nations meet today in Arusha, Tanzania, to finalise a 'plant protection' protocol that would open up the continent's seeds to corporate interests, taking away farmers' rights to grow, improve, sell and exchange their...
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By Crossed Crocodiles | May 8, 2012 at 3:04 pm | No comments
East Africa's Great Rift includes four rift systems that promise to hold significant deposits of oil. Africa Oil Corporation has been exploring and drilling here, and prepared a report that includes a number of excellent maps and graphics of seismic data. I've selected a few...
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By Crossed Crocodiles | February 9, 2012 at 1:46 am | 3 comments
[T]he United States must employ its soft power to persuade African nations to work with it. The time to do so is now, before China’s inroads in African states become insurmountable. If the United States is to secure its resource needs from Africa in the future, it must be...
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