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Reducing imports: Nigeria’s Kaduna Refinery is expected to resume operations by 2023. Photo: Andrew Holt/Getty Images
AFRICA

COP27: Scramble for Africa’s gas – and some countries on the continent keen to comply

Contrary to the push for clean energy, several African countries want to develop gas fields for local use and export. And, with Russia’s war in Ukraine, Europeans are ready to…

  • Sheree Bega
  • Mandisa Makgakga
9 min read
:Delegates listen to speakers at the opening ceremony of the High Level Segment of The United Nations Climate Change Conference on December 15, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
AFRICA

COP27: More empty promises or will it bear fruit?

Will African countries get the climate pledges owed to them by wealthier nations or will it be more empty promises

  • Editorial
2 min read