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EarthWire Africa provides a daily overview of the environment in Africa as reported in the media. The web site is updated every day by a team of editors that reviews media sources for environmental news stories.

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Mart nears oil discovery on UMU-7 well onshore Nigeria
independentngonline.com | 04 May 2011
Mart Resources and its co-venturers, Midwestern O&G (Operator of the Umusadege field) and SunTrust Oil, reported encouraging initial test results from the first zone tested on the UMU-7 well located in the Umusadege field, onshore Nigeria.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Judging jatropha
IRIN News | 24 Mar 2011
A new study has put the brakes on a rush by some countries and companies to establish plantations of jatropha, an oil-bearing shrub and cousin of the castor bean bush, as a source of biofuel.

Mauritania, Kuwait, Jordan water said least secure
Reuters | 21 Mar 2011
Mauritania, Kuwait and Jordan have the least secure water supplies, according to a ranking on Tuesday that says shortages in the Middle East and North Africa might cause political tensions and even higher oil prices.

Mauritania | Access to Freshwater | Fossil Fuels

Transparency International on oil companies and corruption: who is the most open?
Guardian Unlimited | 01 Mar 2011
Are the world's oil companies fighting corruption - or helping perpetuate it? The report out today by Transparency International and Revenue Watch examines the polices of 44 companies responsible for 60% of the world's oil production. With the focus on the collapse of oil-rich Libya now, the behaviour of these big companies behind the scenes in countries around the world becomes even more important.

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | Economics and the Environment | Energy Consumption | Fossil Fuels | Industry

Biofuel boom could follow oil price spike
Guardian Unlimited | 01 Mar 2011
When biofuels match oil on price, production could boom in the developing countries that also have the greatest need to boost food supply. The production of biofuels, good thing or not, will be decided by the setting of targets in the big western energy markets, right?

Agriculture | Economics and the Environment | Energy | Fossil Fuels

Two Percent Price-Tag for a Green Economy
Inter Press Service | 23 Feb 2011
The present "brown" economic system driven by fossil fuel energy and the serial depletion and degradation of natural resources and ecosystems has no future and must be replaced by a green economy, says the Green Economy report launched in Nairobi, Kenya this week by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Haiti, DRC: Security Council discusses poverty and under-development as root of conflict
feedproxy.google.com | 12 Feb 2011
The Security Council, which normally deals with country-specific issues of war and peace such as the Middle East or Sudan, today held a day-long, high-level debate on the root causes that fuel conflict in the world, like poverty and under-development. "Peace, security and development are...

Access to Information | Environmental Impacts | Fossil Fuels

Nnimmo Bassey - Right Livelihood Award recipient
AfricaFiles | 17 Jan 2011
Nnimmo Bassey has been awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for revealing the full ecological and human horrors of oil production and for his inspired work to strengthen the environmental movement in Nigeria and globally".

Nigeria | Fossil Fuels | Health and Environment

Sudan: South Expects New Oil Finds to Boost Its Economy
AllAfrica.com | 14 Jan 2011
Khartoum — South Sudan government expects that new oil finds in the region by European operators would increase its revenue and help to cover important expenditures for the new state which might proclaim its independence next July. The semi-autonomous region is conducting nowadays a referendum on self-determination which would lead to the establishment of a new African state devoid of infrastructure and ravaged by war.

Sudan | Economics and the Environment | Fossil Fuels

Sudan needs clearer oil-sharing deal
BBC World Service | 10 Jan 2011
Sudan needs to have greater transparency over its oil revenues to help preserve peace in the region, according to a new report. Campaign organisation Global Witness says suspicions over how revenues have been shared have added greatly to mistrust between north and south. The report comes ahead of Sunday's referendum on southern independence.

Sudan | Economics and the Environment | Energy Consumption | Fossil Fuels

Nigeria: Oil Spill Incidents in Hit 3,700
AllAfrica.com | 21 Dec 2010
Lagos — The oil spill incidents in Nigeria have hit 3,700 in mid-December 2010 even as the federal government at the weekend commenced the review of national action plan for oil spill preparedness and response. Director, Department of Oil Spill Detection and Response, National Oil Spill Detection...

Nigeria | Economics and the Environment | Energy | Fossil Fuels | Water Pollution

Ghana: Oil Flows Amid Legal & Transparency Gaps
AllAfrica.com | 20 Dec 2010
Government has been told to quickly address huge gaps in the legal framework needed to make the most of the billions in government revenue Ghana will receive from oil as commercial production of the commodity has already began.

Ghana | Economics and the Environment | Energy Consumption | Fossil Fuels

New fuel prices take effect
Daily Nation | 14 Dec 2010
A litre of super petrol will now cost Sh94.03 with effect from Wednesday in Nairobi as the government moves to rein in profiteering by oil marketing firms. Consumers in Kisumu, Nakuru, Eldoret and Mombasa will pay Sh96.25, Sh95.10, Sh96.19 and Sh91.08, respectively. The prices, according to Energy minister Kiraitu Murungi, will be reviewed every 30 days.

Kenya | Economics and the Environment | Energy | Fossil Fuels

Uganda: Slippery politics of Uganda's oil
The Monitor | 23 Nov 2010
Long lines of fuel hungry cars and angry motorists are becoming to Uganda what workers strikes are to South Africa, the continents biggest economy. But where South Africas song and dance trade unionists picket the government for better wages- and have been a part of the countrys transition to democracy in the 90s, in Uganda, organised protests rarely occur.

Uganda | Fossil Fuels | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Pollution

UNEP fieldwork in Ogoniland, Nigeria, still ongoing
UNEP | 22 Nov 2010
The fieldwork by UNEP's scientific teams on oil pollution in Ogoniland, Nigeria is firmly focused on collecting samples of water, soil, sediment, air and plant and animal tissue, with the on-the-ground activities due to be completed in December 2010 after which there will be further laboratory analysis.

Nigeria | Fossil Fuels | Pollution

Tanzania employees accuse govt of betraying them in company takeover
The East African | 15 Nov 2010
The exit of multinational British Petroleum from the Tanzania market faces stiff opposition from its workers who want to know their fate before any transfer of assets is made. According to sources in the petroleum sector, workers are up in arms accusing management of ignoring their pleas for a...

Tanzania | United Republic of | Economics and the Environment | Fossil Fuels

Coal and climate change negotiations
AfricaFiles | 11 Aug 2010
The race to invent a new energy future is not waiting for the last sack of coal to be dug out of the ground. Ironically, this new energy future is being shaped despite the intensity of coal use in a somewhat out-of-step South Africa today. AB

South Africa | Climate Change Impacts | Fossil Fuels | Renewable Energy

Nigeria: Minister Advocates Collaboration Against Climate Change
AllAfrica.com | 27 May 2010
The Attorney -General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Muhammed Bello Adoke, (SAN), yesterday called for the collaboration of all stakeholders in the country on the fight against the activities of climate change."Human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, the...

Nigeria | Climate Change Impacts | Deforestation | Fossil Fuels

South Africa: Dirty secret: Eskom and the Medupi power plant
AfricaFiles | 13 May 2010
China's per capita carbon dioxide emissions - at five tonnes per person – are far lower than those of South Africa. With just five per cent of the worlds population South Africa consumes a quarter of the worlds oil reserves. Khadija Sharife looks at support for Eskoms plans to build a new coal-fired power plant, Medupi and asks who the project benefits and what it will cost. DN

South Africa | Energy | Fossil Fuels

Namibia: Conservationist Asks for the Adoption of Alternative Fuel Sources
AllAfrica.com | 07 May 2010
Founder and executive director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), Dr Laurie Marker, this week added her voice to the call for alternative fuel sources in light of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Namibia | Accidents and Spills | Fossil Fuels | Threatened Species

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