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Total Energies to quit South Africa offshore gas fields

French Total Energies said it plans to quit South Africa’s offshore gas fields to focus on more promising discoveries in Namibia, Bloomberg and Reuters reported. The company plans to give up its license for Block 11B/12B because it doubts whether the complex deep-water finds can be made commercially viable, given South Africa’s small gas market, […]

Syria: Talks without Talks

The would-be talks in Syria are proving to be a tug of war between the United Nations, the Syrian opposition High Negotiators Council (HNC) and the Assad-led government as conditions under which they should be held continue to be a source of disagreement. The HNC, the main opposition group, wants humanitarian aid to reach besieged […]

Senegal tasked with wooing military ruled Sahel states back into ECOWAS

West Africa’s economic bloc, ECOWAS, appointed Senegalese president Basirou Faye to intercede with Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger who said they left the grouping and formed a new confederation. Faye was asked at the ECOWAS’ 65th ordinary session to work together with Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe to mediate and try to convince the three military […]