DISPATCHES Vol 63 No 17 | UNITED NATIONSAFRICAN UNIONCLIMATE CHANGE Fight over Africa’s fossil fuels intensifies 9th August 2022 Climate negotiators push back against AU plan for common position on gas and nuclear energy playing a ‘critical role’ in short to medium term The African Union’s plan to ramp up oil and gas production launched at a preparatory meeting with national negotiating teams has triggered a row with climate experts and green ener... READ FOR FREE
Vol 55 No 10 | NIGERIA Everyone loses 16th May 2014 The unfolding tragedy of the abducted schoolgirls exposes the government’s lack of strategy and will prolong the insurgency In the short term, the crisis triggered by Boko Haram's kidnapping of more than 230 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno State damages all those involved in addition to the students: P...
Vol 59 No 25 | NIGERIA Election bored game 21st December 2018 Two familiar veteran candidates are failing to strike a chord with the voters ahead of a critical presidential race next February As political leaders loudly debate the ethics of signing up to a code of conduct and President Muhammadu Buhari throws back, for the fourth time, an electoral reform bill to the Na...
Vol 46 No 12 | NIGERIA Brassed off: a contractor under fire 10th June 2005 In the badlands of the Niger Delta a dispute over an oil-loading contract shows the often corrosive relationship between multinational oil companies, government officials and local...
Vol 64 No 10 | NIGERIAEUROPEAN UNION Will you be my strategic partner? 11th May 2023 The European Union's diplomatic service, the European External Action Service, has earmarked four countries, one from each continent, as 'key strategic partners' as it seeks to boo...