The Moscow Times and Steel Guru have reported that Rosneft is looking to build a $700 million oil-products pipeline from Mozambique to Zimbabwe in an unprecedented effort to expand its international reach in to Africa. The new route seeks to compete with shipments to Zimbabwe by road from neighboring South Africa that supplement supplies through [...]

One doesn’t often associate the term “corporate social responsibility” with Chinese state-owned businesses, but it would be a mistake to assume that an unguided or less regulated set of standard operating procedures would necessarily produce a competitive advantage.  In a number of African nations, local communities are beginning to experience a backlash against their new [...]

It’s become a familiar exercise in many Sub-Saharan resource states – a popular leader comes to power by coup, revolution, and sometimes, by vote, promises sweeping social change and the eradication of poverty by tapping a greater share of the resource wealth, revokes and reissues a variety of licenses and rights, hangs onto power for [...]