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A committee set up to oversee oil revenues in Chad has protested about lack of resources from the government and oil company involved.
The central African state became an oil producer last year.
The committee was set up under a World Bank plan to tr
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Good early article.
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Encountered in context of Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development Project
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technology has limits...social context...‘physicality of development’...Actual money must still be transacted; face-to-face meetings must still occur; and real goods and infrastructure must still be produced and used...mobiles...therefore have limits.
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The power which was once in the hands of Exxon, Shell, BP and the others has shifted almost entirely to the National Oil Companies (NOCs). Remember that the growth of the oil industry was characterised by a corporation like Shell having skills and resourc
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I am reminded of Shell benefiting from instability in Nigeria.
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Chad began its efforts to develop its oil resources in 1969. The presence of oil in commercial quantities was confirmed in 1975. Construction on the project began in late 2000, more than 30 years after exploration began. After years of study, planning, an
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WITH the paralysing effect of the two weeks of cult war in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, yet to clear, the Niger Delta, Nigeria's oil and gas basin, will soon cycle back into a new wave of insurgency. Some of the aggrieved rebel groups are spoi
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Stakeholder Democracy Network is a not-for-profit organisation. We help communities, especially those in the global South where big businesses' impacts are greatest, to communicate and negotiate with other stakeholders whose investments and operations aff
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International development assistance for two of the poorest countries in Africa could soon be used to support a project planned by big oil companies. An international consortium consisting of Exxon, Shell and ELF is planning a multibillion dollar oil expl
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Ebocha, Nigeria - Justice Eta, 14 months old, held out his tiny thumb. An ink spot certified that he had been immunized against polio and measles, thanks to a vaccination drive supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But polio is not the only th
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Illegal oil “bunkering” – theft – has accelerated the conflict
and provided militant and criminal groups with funds to
purchase arms. Another source of funding are the discreet
payments oil companies make to militant leaders in return
for
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THE United States will keep an eye on the situation in the Niger Delta as violence in the area has been identified as one of the major security challenges that U.S businesses will face this year.
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Oil industry sees Africa as most promising afrol News, 15 November - At the 13th Africa Upstream conference, which opened today in Cape Town, optimism is present all over. Record oil prices and the world's least explored continent have it in for lucrative
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Four months ago, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz was fuming at the African nation of Chad for diverting oil revenues from the Chad-Cameron pipeline slated for poverty alleviation and social spending to a budget allocation for arms purchases.
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