Equatorial Guinea is currently developing its Gas Megahub project which aims to make the country a regional hub for gas distribution Algeria’s Sonelgaz and Equatorial Guinea’s Sonagas have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the Gas sector. The Memorandum of Understanding covers the regulatory framework for the gas sector, the transport and distribution of gas through pipelines, the supply and installation of gas meters and all other areas of the energy sector of mutual interest; the Algerian government is focused on strengthening the role of its gas sector in its national and international economy, as well as optimizing energy efficiency;…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The book was distributed during the 2nd Gas Exporting Countries Forum International Gas Seminar. The publication highlights key achievements in corporate social responsibility projects within Equatorial Guinea’s oil and gas sector; notable projects include the Bioko Island Malaria Elimination Project, Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program and former Program for Education Development of Equatorial Guinea; the book was distributed during the 2nd Gas Exporting Countries Forum International Gas Seminar and will be further distributed throughout the 2020 Year of Investment international events and roadshows.Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons has launched its first official publication documenting the country’s key corporate social…
The report looks at key developments in major African oil and gas producers and offers key insights into the growth potential of the industry The African Energy Chamber (https://EnergyChamber.org/) is pleased to announce the launch of its inaugural African Energy Outlook for 2020.Providing a thorough look at the continent’s oil and gas sector, the report analyses the state of the industry, highlighting current trends, opportunities, and key challenges and how they will impact the future of Africa’s energy and economic development.With a focus on key strategic and operational developments for 2020, the African Energy Outlook forms part of the African…
The GMO debate is over again. Last week, the prestigious National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine issued what is probably the most far-reaching report ever produced by the scientific community on genetically engineered food and crops. The conclusion was unambiguous: Having examined hundreds of scientific papers written on the subject, sat through hours of live testimony from activists and considered hundreds more comments from the general public, the scientists wrote that they “found no substantiated evidence that foods from GE crops were less safe than foods from non-GE crops.” The National Academies process was both impressively inclusive and explicitly consensual. As…
The continent’s 55 countries sign a 5-point declaration to strengthen food security By Kiran Pandey Fifty-five African countries recently signed a five-point declaration to increase the climate adaptation and resilience of the continent’s food systems. The declaration, signed by government representatives at the African Green Revolution Forum – 2019 in Accra, Ghana on September 4, 2019, recognises climate change as a challenge to Africa’s food security. Africa’s population will increase to 2.4 billion by 2050, requiring the continent to scale up its food production while tackling the challenge of climate change. The declaration lists five measures that should be…
The National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC), says it is getting purer seeds due to the technological innovations of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) funded BASICS project for cassava in Nigeria. BASICS is the acronym for Building a Sustainable, Integrated Seed System for Cassava. Dr Ishiak Khalid, the Director of Seed Certification and Quality Control of the NASC made this known in an interview on Friday in Abuja. Khalid said that one of the innovations put in place by the BASICS project was a seed production system called Semi- Autotrophic Hydroponics (SAH). “This system provides for massive multiplication of…
The biotech Oxitec had released the genetically engineered insects with the hope that they would breed with wild populations and produce offspring that die young. But that’s not always happening. By Kerry Grens Update (September 18) Scientific Reports has issued an editor’s note, stating that “the conclusions of this paper are subject to criticisms that are being considered by editors.” In a statement sent to The Scientist, Oxitec says it takes issues with a number of conclusions the authors made in their report. Among them, “The authors infer that Oxitec’s self-limiting genes persist in the environment. Yet as confirmed by…
Scientists in Burkina Faso have deployed a new weapon in the fight against malaria, and waded into a thorny bioethics debate, by letting loose thousands of genetically sterilised mosquitoes. Their experiment is the first outside the lab to release genetically altered mosquitoes in the hope of reducing their ability to spread the often deadly disease. It works using a technique called a gene drive, which edits and then propagates a gene in a population – in this case to prevent males from producing offspring. Investments in anti-malarial drugs, mosquito nets and insecticides have slowed malaria over the past two decades…
Ethan Lindenberger is only 18 years old, but he is already a hardened campaigner. By Ana Lazaro He managed to get vaccinations, against his mother’s wishes. Now he is fighting against the spread of anti-vax movements. “The message is very simple: the misinformation is very dangerous. And that people misinformed is not bad people. They have just been given bad information and given false information and ideas, and you need to fight that with better information”. He has come to Brussels to take part in the Global vaccination summit. In Europe, scepticism about vaccination has being growing during in recent…
A Nigerian pharmacist, Mr Emmanuel Tangang, has advised Nigerians against consumption of fruits during medication to avoid reduction in the potency of the drugs. Tangang gave the advice in an interview on Thursday in Kaduna. According to him, many people do not know that some fruits interact badly with certain medications. “This means your meal can end up reducing the efficacy of your drugs, or worse still, could become a health nightmare. “An example is banana; do not eat them if you take ACE inhibitors such as Captopril, Enalapril and Fosinopril, among others. “ACE inhibitors lower blood pressure and treat…