International
DRC: DRC Gold Production Set to Quadruple
Oct 26, 2014
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MINING.com
The amount of gold produced by the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to be four times the amount produced last year, thanks largely…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Oil Gives Kurds a Path to Independence, and Conflict With Baghdad
Oct 25, 2014
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Azam Ahmed and Clifford Krauss, New York Times
KIRKUK, Iraq — Roughly two dozen huge oil tankers are idly turning figure eights around the Mediterranean or on the high seas, loaded with oil…
Iraq Crisis: US Warns Buyers and Middlemen Involved in Isis Oil Trade
Oct 24, 2014
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Vasudevan Sridharan, International Business Times
The US has warned Turkish and Kurdish middlemen involved in the lucrative Isis oil trade as the US is determined to choke the extremists' sources…
Iraq: The US Has Intervened to Help Iraq Hold Its Most Important Oil Facility
Oct 24, 2014
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Stephen Snyder, Public Radio International
The refinery, the largest in the country, is surrounded by ISIS fighters and their supporters. It's been shut down since mid-June, but the government is still clinging to…
Liberia: Protecting Liberia's Forest - Liberia-Norway Sign Agreement
Oct 24, 2014
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Al-Varney Rogers, AllAfrica
Monrovia — The Forestry Development Authority says the 150 million agreement signed between the governments of Liberia and Norway is not meant to infringe on…
Darfur/Sudan: Oil in Darfur Waiting to Be Explored - Expert
Oct 23, 2014
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Sudan Vision
El Fasher — The Darfur region has a great potential for oil exploration, estimated at between five to fifteen billion barrels, as long as the…
Iraq/Syria: U.S. Warns of Sanctions on Buyers of Islamic State Oil
Oct 23, 2014
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Anna Yukhananov, Reuters
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration on Thursday threatened to slap sanctions on anyone buying oil from Islamic State militants in an effort to disrupt what…
Iraq/Kurdistan: A Mysterious Oil Tanker Might Hold the Key to Kurdish Independence
Oct 23, 2014
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Matthew Philips, Businessweek
At any given time, the Gulf of Mexico is crawling with oil tankers, many of them delivering some of the 7.5 million barrels of foreign…
South Sudan: South Sudan Looks to Livestock to Break Oil Dependence
Oct 23, 2014
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Michael Atit, Voice of America
As South Sudan tries to break its economic dependence on oil, it is looking to another resource it has in abundance: livestock.
The world's newest nation…
Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone: Ebola Outbreak Prompts Food Scarcity and Threat of Social Conflict
Oct 23, 2014
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Clar Ni Chonghaile, The Guardian
Farmers in Liberia are too frightened to work together in their fields, fertilisers and seeds are stuck on the other side of closed borders, markets…
Liberia: GOL, Norwegian Gov't Sign U.S.$150 Million Agreement
Oct 23, 2014
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Victor C. Hanson Jr, AllAfrica
The Government of Liberia and the Kingdom of Norway have signed US$150 million agreement to improve forest governance, strengthen law enforcement, and support efforts aimed…
Iraq/Syria: U.S. Strikes Cut Into ISIS Oil Revenues, Treasury Official Says
Oct 23, 2014
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Julie Hirschfeld David, New York Times
The American military campaign against the Islamic State has begun to cut into the Sunni militant group’s substantial oil revenues, the top counterterrorism official at…
Haiti: Hearing in Haitians’ Cholera Case
Oct 23, 2014
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Rick Gladstone, New York Times
A federal judge in Manhattan heard arguments on Thursday in the first court proceeding over Haitian cholera victims’ lawsuit against the United Nations. They contend…
Conflict Minerals: Catholic Bishops Press EU on Conflict Minerals
Oct 22, 2014
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Sue Reisinger, Corporate Counsel
Some 70 Roman Catholic bishops from around the world and a global Catholic development agency are urging the EU to make proposed rules for so-called…
Conflict Minerals: Group of Investors Urge European Union to Adopt Stronger Conflict Minerals Legislation
Oct 22, 2014
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Providence Journal
BRUSSELS and SAN FRANCISCO -- Yesterday, global sustainable and responsible investors and investment organisations representing more than EUR855 billion in assets under management sent a…
Iraq/Kurdistan: US Not to Intervene in Baghdad, Erbil Dispute Over Tanker of Kurdish Oil: Official
Oct 22, 2014
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Platts
The Obama administration will not intervene in a legal dispute between Baghdad and Erbil over a tanker of Kurdish oil that has been circling off…
Philippines/South China Sea: Philippines pushes arbitration in China sea row
Oct 22, 2014
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Oliver Teves, Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine president said Wednesday that the international arbitration Manila has initiated to challenge China's territorial claims in the South China Sea…
China/South China Sea: China Installs Buoys in Pacific Ocean, Report Says
Oct 22, 2014
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AFP
Beijing (AFP) - China has installed 17 sets of submerged buoys in "key marine areas" of the western Pacific Ocean, state media said, a move…
Conflict Minerals: IT and the Trade in Conflict Minerals
Oct 21, 2014
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Maija Palmer, Financial Times
The next time your mobile phone buzzes in your pocket, think tungsten. The hard, steel-grey mineral is crucial to the component that makes phones vibrate.…
Mindanao/Philippines: Massive Land Grabbing Reported in SouthCot Town
Oct 21, 2014
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Minda News
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Officials of Tantangan town in South Cotabato have raised alarm over the alleged massive land grabbing activities in two of its…
Liberia: Ebola Epidemic Delays Auction
Oct 21, 2014
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Africa Energy Intelligence
Liberia has pulled out all the stops to make its licensing round a success. But Monrovia is touting new blocks in a highly complicated health…
Africa: 15 African Nations That Are The Most Land-Grabbed By Foreign Interests
Oct 21, 2014
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Atlanta Black Star
Land grabbing is defined as the practice of buying or leasing large pieces of land in developing countries by domestic and international companies, governments worldwide…
South Sudan/Sudan: China Reviewing Oil Relationships with Sudan, South Sudan, Researcher Says
Oct 21, 2014
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Nick Snow, Oil & Gas Journal
The Chinese government and China National Petroleum Corp. are reviewing their relationships with Sudan and South Sudan following years of growth that changed both sides,…
Uganda: Uganda Says Oil Revenue Possible Alternative to Chinese Cash for Railway
Oct 21, 2014
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Karin Strohecker, Reuters
LONDON - Uganda could rely on income from future oil exports to finance an $8 billion railway if funding talks with China fail to bear…
Myanmar: Norwegian Support for Hydropower: Peacebuilding Through Best Practice
Oct 21, 2014
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Ashley South, Democratic Voice of Burma
Last week I accompanied a group from the Norwegian embassy in Rangoon, and the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE), to the Karen National…
Myanmar: Record Haul in Jade Sales to Burmese Traders
Oct 21, 2014
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Kyaw Hsu Mon, The Irrawaddy
RANGOON — Jade sales at a major gems emporium for local traders in Burma hit a record high this week, a spokesperson for the Myanma…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Kurdistan Rushes to Expand Refineries
Oct 20, 2014
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Patrick Osgood, Iraq Oil Report
Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is racing to expand the capacity of its oil refineries – a critical step toward addressing weaknesses in the…
Liberia: Cheaper Electricity in Sight
Oct 20, 2014
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Liberian Observer
The Conex Crude Storage Terminal (CST) project in collaboration with the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company ("LPRC") is expected to be completed in December this year,…
Iraq/Syria: Senior MP: Purchase of Iraq's Oil from ISIL Harms Turkey's Ties with Producers
Oct 20, 2014
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FARS News Agency
"The Turkish government's purchase of Iraq's crude from the ISIL at a rate one-third of the market prices will harm its relations with the oil…
Iraq/Syria: Islamist Terror Group Earns $800 Million a Year From Oil Sales
Oct 20, 2014
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Jim Polson, Bloomberg
The Islamic State is earning about $2 million a day, or $800 million a year, selling oil on the black market, according to one estimate.
The…