Biofuels Can Anticipate a Promising Future in Sub-Saharan Africa, Finds Frost & Sullivan.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- There is huge potential for biofuel production in sub-Saharan African countries such as Nigeria, Uganda and Angola, provided there is a concerted effort from key stakeholders. The production of feedstock and the fuel itself would ultimately lead to socio-economic improvement and,...

Pope wants 2009 to be 'Year of Africa'.
Pope Benedict XVI intends to make 2009 the "Year of Africa." The Vatican has three major events centered on Africa in the upcoming year: Benedict is to visit Cameroon and Angola in March; the episcopal conferences of Africa and Madagascar will meet in general assembly in Rome...

FMC Technologies Receives $140 Million Gas Exporting Regulation Manifold Contract for BP Operated Block 18.
HOUSTON, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FMC Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has signed a contract with BP for the manufacture and supply of subsea equipment for the BP and Sonangol Sinopec International Block 18 field development, located offshore Angola. The contract is valued at approximately $140 million in...

Marathon Announces Additional Details of 2008 Reserve Additions and Costs Incurred.
HOUSTON, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Marathon Oil Corporation announced that during 2008, the Company added net proved liquid hydrocarbon and natural gas reserves of 110 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe), excluding dispositions of 3 mmboe, while producing 137 mmboe, for a reserve replacement of 80 percent. Included in...

The Beautiful and the Damned.
The Beautiful and the Damned [Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles, Richard Dowden, Portobello, 550 pages] A DECADE AGO, at 3 a.m. on a hot night in a small village a few hours north of Kampala, Uganda, I was woken...

Rebels and Robbers: Violence in Post-Colonial Angola.
Rebels and Robbers: Violence in Post-Colonial Angola. By Assis Malaquias. (Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2007. Pp. 264. $39.95.) In this book the author provides a wide-ranging analysis of the conditions that led to violence and corruption in Angola from the 1970s to 2004. The book consists of...

Constructive engagement?; Chester Crocker & American policy in South Africa, Namibia & Angola, 1981-8.
9780821417812 Constructive engagement?; Chester Crocker & American policy in South Africa, Namibia & Angola, 1981-8. Davies, J. E. Ohio University Press 2007 246 pages $59.95 Hardcover DT38 Davies (formerly, international relations,...

National Day of Angola.
TODAY IS THE National Day of Angola. Angola is a country in south-central Africa bordering Namibia to the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, and Zambia to the east, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean. Its enclave province of Cabinda has...

Electoral Process in Angola Elicits Little Trust; Thirty-four percent have confidence in the honesty of elections.
Byline: Magali Rheault and Bob Tortora Synopsis: For the first time in 16 years, Angolans will be voting in national elections to choose their parliamentarians on Friday. But Gallup findings show that few Angolans surveyed express confidence in the honesty of elections. WASHINGTON, D.C. --...

Angola spoils Yao's return.
Despite a brave rally back from a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit, China's hopes fizzled out in the end when Yao failed to put back an offence rebound off a missed shot as time expired. The towering NBA All Star scored 16 points and seven rebounds in 20 minutes...