As crude price skyrockets worldwide, Kenya at the jatropha tree. The tree is at the heart of a five-year strategy to develop bio fuel and reduce dependency on crude oil.
Photo: People line up to buy kerosene as some shops and petrol stations in Kenya. Reuters.

Nigerians are reportedly hailing news that the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) is beginning investigation into allegations of corruption against former President Olusegun Obasanjo during his rule. They say although the investigation is a welcome development, the timing is questionable after various accusations of graft practices were leveled against the former president.
Nigerian economist Chudi [...]

Rwanda has accused senior French officials, including the country’s former president and prime minister, of being involved in its 1994 genocide.
“French soldiers themselves directly were involved in assassinations of Tutsis and Hutus accused of hiding Tutsis,” the report said. “French soldiers committed many rapes, specifically of Tutsi women.”
The report published by President Paul Kagame’s government [...]

The Nigerian government wants to restructure the state oil and gas sector. The move would most likely break up the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Should the NNPC be privatized?

The long anticipated trial of African National Congress president Jacob Zuma on charges ranging from corruption to racketeering will get under way next week in KwaZulu Natal.
Three years after Jacob Zuma was formally charged with two charges of corruption flowing out of the conviction of his legal advisor on similar charges, his trial will [...]

Nigeria’s main militant group says it has blown up two more oil pipelines in an overnight attack. In an email to journalists giving details of the overnight attack, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta says the pipelines in Rivers State are operated by a unit of oil giant Royal Dutch Shell PLC.
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Ending 48 hours of delays, Zimbabwean power-sharing talks between the country’s ruling ZANU-PF party and both formations of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change got under way Thursday at an undisclosed location in the South African capital of Pretoria. Political analyst John Makumbe of the University of Zimbabwe discusses the talks with Blessing Zulu of [...]