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A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil. The animals in Niger are known as Giraffa camelopardalis peralta, the most... [read full story]
The Nigerian military says the oil-rich Niger Delta has returned to normal after years of attacks that crippled the country's oil industry and created widespread insecurity. Gilbert da Costa | Abuja 21 November 2009 The...
Book: Poisoned Wells. The Dirty Politics of African Oil Author: Nicholas Shaxson Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007 Volume: 280 pages Reviewer: Martyn Drakard Available at Aristoc "Oil," wrote Ryszard Kapuscinski, "is a great...
Some excitement as Berkeley Resources takes on Ian Stalker, an industry legend. In the uranium space, there has been some excitement over certain stocks, not least Australia-listed Extract Resources, with its Rössing South...
Jonah Lehrer at The Frontal Cortex has an interesting bit up on expertise. The parts I found most interesting were on punditry and mutual fund managers. Key quotes…… Look, for instance, at mutual fund managers. They take...
