Africa contains only 10 percent of the world’s proven oil reserves, but in an increasingly uncertain market, oil companies are eyeing crude from West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea for reasons beyond sheer output. The region’s oil is light and sweet, making it easier and cheaper to refine than Middle Eastern oil. Moreover, most of it is [...] [...more]
The Energy Information Administration (EIA), created by Congress in 1977, is a statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Energy. Their mission is to provide policy-neutral data, forecasts, and analyses [...] [...more]
Firestone Liberia has announced the opening of the first phase of its operation to process rubber wood. The air-dried rubber wood is a value-added, ecologically sustainable product of its natural rubber operations in Liberia and will create 500 new jobs in the country. “In 2005, Firestone started an aggressive replanting effort to [...] [...more]
The West African Water Partnership was established in March 2002 in Bamako, Mali. The West Africa Water Partnership supports the establishment of capacity building and an information sharing program in the sub-region together with the promotion of the involvement of the youth and children in water resources management. Accomplishments in West Africa Hydropart is a database of [...] [...more]
Plan works with children, their families, communities, organisations and local governments to implement programmes at grassroots level in health, education, water and sanitation, income generation and cross-cultural communication. We ensure that children are involved in all aspects of our programmes, working with adults who have learnt to value their contribution. Plan International [...more]
The World Summit on Sustainable Development has formally endorsed the “partnership” model as an important means for action. Organizations around the world are stepping forward to strengthen existing [...] [...more]
Offshore West Africa PennWell Corporation is a highly diversified, business-to-business media company providing authoritative print and online publications, conferences and exhibitions, research, databases, online exchanges and information products to strategic global markets. [...more]
A Playground “roundabout” to power a borehole pump to provide clean water – the “PlayPump” benefits women and girls in particular who can spend hours each day fetching water. Surplus water sold to farmers for irrigation to provide funds for the Edu-POD to allow free schooling. In return the farmers provide grown crops to feed [...] [...more]
The International Herald Tribune’s global economics columnist, Daniel Altman, moderated an online discussion between readers and Jeffrey Sachs, the Columbia University professor who is director of the Earth Institute as well as a former director of the United Nations Millennium Project, which seeks to reduce extreme poverty. Question by Jean Bachir Ghabache, France “Where do you [...] [...more]
Clean technology or ‘Clean Tech’ is the shorthand term coined for innovations that are both energy efficient and environmentally friendly. Estimates suggest nearly two billion people worldwide have no access to any form of electricity supply and most live in rural areas. There are countless others who have some form of supply but suffer frequent outages [...] [...more]
