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African maritime insecurity, particularly in connection with acts of piracy, has constituted an important field of study for security researchers in recent years. It has also frequently made local...
This article, written in two parts, aims to draw attention to the role that the Captains of Industry – businesses and entrepreneurs – can play to enhance the African security environment,...
For centuries conflict and resources have been intrinsically interlinked.(2) In the present era, the fight for resources continues to be a feature of contemporary conflict. Most notable are the...
With no outright winner after the first round of elections on the island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, a runoff election, contested by Manuel Pinto da Costa and Evaristo Carvalho, took place on...
From January to December 2010, the total incidents of piracy recorded per regions of the world were 40 in America, 44 in the Far East, 28 in the Indian Sub Continent, 70 in South East Asia, 4 in...
Tragic as it is, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is good news for Africa - increasingly the new frontier for oil and gas exploration worldwide. Now estimated to be spewing up to 60 000 barrels...
In today's podcast: the Department of Minerals and Energy has reaffirmed its plans for a new crude oil refinery at the Coega IDZ, apprentice numbers in South Africa's metals sector rose to over 4...
Nigeria will finally hand over the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon on Thursday, putting an end to a decades-old dispute that brought the two countries to the brink of war.
Security is...
Nigeria wants to see faster action towards creating an international naval force to protect the offshore oil industry in the Gulf of Guinea, President Umaru Yar'Adua has said.
Violence...
The United States is boosting its naval presence along the lawless West African coast to combat terrorism, illegal migration and drug trafficking and to secure US oil interests, senior naval and...
ADDRESS BY THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
H.E. JACOB ZUMA, TO THE ANGOLAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
AND SOUTH AFRICAN BUSINESS COMMUNITY IN ANGOLA, Luanda
Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was set to arrive today in her former
west African colony Nigeria for the first time since it won its
independence, as Abuja gears up to host the Commonwealth summit.
Sao Tome and Principe's putschists and international mediators were
set to continue talks today, as the deposed president of the west
African archipelago insisted the coup leaders return to their...