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 42 No 17 | NIGERIA How Sharia spread 31st August 2001 North-west Nigeria, with probably more than 30 million people, is the country's most populous zone - overwhelmingly Muslim, with significant numbers of Christians only in southern ...
Vol 57 No 24 | NIGERIA Army's 'Biafra' overreaction 2nd December 2016 Five years ago, the movement for a separate Igbo nation, Biafra, seemed dead in the water of the Niger Delta. Fighting between leaders of the secessionist Movement for the Actualis...
Vol 64 No 12 | NIGERIA Shell holds up clean-up payments in graft row 26th May 2023 Sacked director of Ogoniland project spells out corruption concerns in rebuke to environment ministry Shell is withholding payments towards the Ogoniland clean-up until it sees a full accounting for the disputed contracts issued to date, Africa Confidential has learned from sources... READ FOR FREE
Vol 64 No 5 | NIGERIA Court tells HYPREP to come clean 2nd March 2023 A Federal High Court in Nigeria has ordered the government's flagship environmental remediation agency to stop work and publish its accounts.