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Article Myanmar

Controversial tax break for lucrative mine in Myanmar

Type: Investigative

Source: Myanmar Now

Tax break for lucrative mine may cost Myanmar $163m while companies reap huge profits

Article Myanmar

Chinese company applying for expansion of copper mine in Myanmar

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: The Irrawady

Chinese Company Behind Controversial Copper Mine Eyes Additional 100k Acres

Article Myanmar

Weak laws threaten people and environment in Myanmar’s jade sector

Type: Investigative

Source: Frontier Myanmar

The jade mining crisis

Video Myanmar

Investigation on Myanmar’s jade curse

Type: Investigative

Source: Aljazeera

Myanmar's Jade Curse

Article South Africa

Mining communities in South Africa left in the dark over royalty payments

Type: Investigative

Source: BusinessDay

Communities starved of mining royalties amid lack of transparency

Article Nigeria

Recovering Nigeria’s assets lost to corrupt oil deals

Type: Investigative

Source: Premium Times

Investigation: Inside Nigeria’s opaque multibillion-dollar asset recovery deals

Article Myanmar

Myanmar government committed to greater transparency over extractive deals

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: The Irrawady

Myanmar President orders mining firms to publish contracts, boosting transparency

Article Uganda

Part III in article series on Uganda-Tanzania pipeline

Type: Investigative

Source: Daily Monitor

Pipeline dreams (III): Can Uganda-Tanzania pipeline project pass environment test?

Article Uganda

Part II in article series on Uganda-Tanzania pipeline

Type: Investigative

Source: Daily Monitor

Pipeline dreams (II): Land acquisition hurdles await oil pipeline project

Article Uganda

Part I in article series on Uganda-Tanzania pipeline

Type: Investigative

Source: Daily Monitor

Pipeline dreams (I): Inside the Uganda-Tanzania oil pipeline talks

Article Uganda

Part IV in article series on Tanzania-Uganda pipeline

Type: Investigative

Source: Daily Monitor

Pipeline dreams (IV): Will locals cash in on the oil bonanza?

Article Uganda

Licensing delayed in Uganda

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: The East African

Uganda pushes back award of exploration licences

Article Angola

The impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic on African oil projects

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: The Africa Report

Coronavirus: Pandemic puts strain 30 major African oil and gas projects

Article Angola

Renewed momentum for the energy transition in Africa

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: African Business Magazine

Africa’s energy transition set to regain momentum after Covid-19 pandemic

Article Tanzania

Tanzania benefits from soaring gold prices amidst pandemic

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: The Citizen

Tanzania reaps big as global gold prices soar to 9-year highs

Article Angola

The Coronavirus pandemic and economic diversification in Africa

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: Africa.com

COVID-19 crisis amplifies the urgency for economic diversity in Africa

Article Nigeria

The Nigerian national oil company publishes its Financial Statement for the first time

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: Business Day Nigeria

Is NNPC departing from old habit of opaqueness to transparency?

Article Angola

The impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic on African oil producers

Source: Africa Confidential

From great crash to weak bounce

Article Myanmar

How the government in Myanmar looses out on revenues from its jade sector

Type: Investigative

Source: Frontier Myanmar

Plundered jade mountains leave gaping hole in government revenue

Article Ghana

Poor use of petroleum revenues in Ghana

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: Graphic Online - Ghana

Report exposes poor maintenance of oil-funded projects

Article Uganda

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline closer to completion

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: Daily Monitor - Uganda

Pipeline deal: Oil firms set date for final investment decision

Article Tanzania

Zanzibar banks on oil exploration to boost economy

Type: Investigative

Source: Daily News - Tanzania

Development of oil exploration in Zanzibar

Video Ghana

Government fails to follow own rules over ExxonMobil contract in Ghana

Type: Investigative

Source: JoyFM - Ghana

ExxonMobil agreement under scrutiny as government fails to comply with law requiring disclosure of waivers

Video Ghana

Missing impact from Ghana’s oil revenues

Type: Investigative

Source: JoyFM- Ghana

Leaking Oil - Documentary

Article Uganda

Uganda’s SOE and the promotion of local content

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: The Independent - Uganda

UNOC to invest $840m in oil and gas sector

Article Uganda

Uganda’s ranking in the Resource Governance Index

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: Earthfinds

Uganda registers weak performance on NRGI extractives governance index

Article Myanmar

A historical perspective on Myanmar’s extractive sector

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: Myanmar Insider

Natural resources management

Article Tanzania

Management of natural resources in Eastern and Southern Africa

Source: The East African

How weak structures could edge the poor out of Africa’s resource

Article Uganda

Negotiations for new pipeline between Uganda and Tanzania

Type: Investigative

Pipeline dreams: inside the Uganda-Tanzania oil pipeline talks

Article Guyana

Impact of new oil discovery in Guyana

Type: Investigative

Source: New York Times

The $20 billion question for Guyana

Article Nigeria

Money changing hands during licensing in Nigeria

Type: Investigative

Source: Premium Times

Investigation: The fraud called Malabu Oil and Gas

Article Tanzania

Covering licensing delays in Tanzania

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: Daily News Tanzania

Minister clears air on LNG project delays

Article Uganda

Identifying suspicious trends in mining ownership in Uganda

Type: Investigative

Source: Daily Monitor - Uganda

Who owns the rights to Uganda’s minerals?

Article Azerbaijan

President’s daughters own gold mine in Azerbaijan

Type: Investigative

Source: Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Aliyev’s secret mining empire

Video Senegal

Alleged bribery in license award in Senegal

Type: Investigative

Source: BBC

BP to pay billions for suspicious Senegal gas deal

Article Brazil

National oil companies and energy transition in Latin America

Type: Investigative

Source: The Economist

Latin America’s state-run oil giants are struggling

Article Ghana

Prices of commodity trading in Ghana

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: Citi Newsroom

Discounted crude oil sales justified; Finance Ministry erred-GNPC

Video Brazil

SOEs and subcontracting scandal in Brazil

Type: Investigative

Source: Aljazeera

The carwash scandal

Article Myanmar

SOEs and debt in Myanmar

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: The Myanmar Times

Oil and gas responsible for half of Myanmar’s debt

Article Nigeria

Loss of government income in the exploration phase in Nigeria

Type: Investigative

Source: Premium Times

How Nigeria loses trillions of Naira to deep offshore oil operations

Article Burkina Faso

Impacts of fiscal stabilization clause in Burkina Faso

Type: Investigative

Source: L'Economiste du Faso

Low tax guaranteed: how a Russian mining giant has saved $16.5m in Burkina Faso

Article DRC

Fiscal terms after election in the DRC

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: African Business Magazine

Mining amid regime change in the DRC

Article Namibia

Taxes and transfer pricing in Namibia

Type: Investigative

Source: The Namibian

Mines on tax honeymoon

Article Angola

Oil money gone missing in Angola

Type: Investigative

Source: International Consortium for Investigative Journalism

How Western advisors helped an autocrat’s daughter amass and shield a fortune

Article Timor-Leste

The challenge of managing revenues from a finite resource in Timor Leste

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: The Diplomat

Time (and oil) running out for Timor-Leste

Article Iraq

Conflict over sharing of Iraq’s oil revenues

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: Al-Monitor

What is the fate of Baghdad-Erbil’s oil-for-budget agreement amid ongoing protests?

Article Uganda

Controversial approval of ESIA in Uganda

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: The Independent - Uganda

Total E&P project approved

Article Ghana

Missing local content expectations in Ghana

Type: Day-to-day reporting

Source: Ghana Business News

Ghana won’t meet target for local content quota in oil and gas sector

Article Myanmar

Social and environmental impacts of mining in Myanmar

Type: Investigative

Source: Radio Free Asia

The Wild West: gold mining and its hazards in Myanmar