Theft from the billion-dollar oil clean-up in Ogoniland is so bad that the operation's chief architect, the UN Environment Programme, wants to quit
The UN Environment Programme is set for a bitter break with Nigeria over the clean-up of pipeline spills in the Niger delta despite almost 15 years of close cooperation, Africa Confidential understands. The UN's withdrawal would have grave repercussions because the billion-dollar clean-up plan, financed by western oil companies and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), was meant to establish a template for environmental remediation in countries across the world where oil production has destroyed farmland and fisheries.
Big companies are using alternative routes and service providers to keep goods moving after a strike at the state-owned railway and port operator
Dysfunction at the cash-strapped transport behemoth Transnet has forced importers and exporters to bypass the country's ports and trains and resort increasingly to trucking goods. ...
The President is marshalling his political resources for a third term in office, starting with a battle for factional supremacy within the ruling party
President Filipe Nyusi hopes to yoke the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique to his bid to change the constitution so he can have a third term of office....
