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Somalia

Seeking End to Oil Dispute

Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is presently in talks with the breakaway province of Puntland on a compromise concerning oil. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.2008

Eric Laroche

The United Nations humanitarian coordinator and UNDP resident representative in Somalia is to leave his post. Frenchman Eric Laroche had [...]

Subscribers only 01.02.2008

Ministers with dual nationality

According to the count carried out by the web site [...]

Subscribers only 24.01.2008

Delegation from Somaliland

The president of the breakaway province of Somaliland, Dahir Kahin Rayale, paid a visit to the United States between Jan. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2008

Internal splits among the Islamists

The split has been consummated between the Al-Shabaab group and the partisans of the old Islamic Courts who joined the opposition alliance based in Asmara.

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2008

Oil Kerfuffle in Puntland

Amsas Consulting, a firm incorporated in Australia and headed by Ali Abdullahi, filed suit in the Puntland high court on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.01.2008

Somalia
A non-State decapitated

The new Somalian Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein known as [...]

Subscribers only 04.12.2007

Africa Oil Corporation

The CEO of this Canadian company, Rick Schmitt, has made [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2007

American spies in Bosaso?

According to local elders, American intelligence agents are present in Puntland.

Free access Politics 16.11.2007

Susannah Price

After spending many years as the BBCcorrespondent at the United Nations in New York, Susannah Price finally went to work [...]

Subscribers only 16.11.2007

Jarand Rystad

The managing partner of Rystad Energy, a service company in the petroleum sector founded in 2004, went to Hargeisa at [...]

Subscribers only 16.11.2007

Horn of Africa
A French escort vessel for Somalia

The French escort vessel Premier Maître l'Her, an 80 metre [...]

Subscribers only 13.11.2007

Africa Oil Winds Up Seismic Campaign

The Canadian concern Africa Oil, controlled by Lukas Lundin, has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.2007

The Mejerteen sew up diplomacy

Before he had even succeeded in ousting the Prime Minister, President Abdullahi Yusuf had already managed to place many of his men as “ambassadors” to several countries.

Subscribers only Politics 02.11.2007

Secret services in Somalia strengthened

President Abdullahi Yusuf has decided to strengthen the secret services [...]

Subscribers only 02.11.2007

An American in Puntland

At the end of 2006, an American former serviceman settled in Bossasso, officially to embark on an import-export business.

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2007

Lukoil To Come Calling

Russia’s Lukoil group, which is seeking to acquire an African [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.10.2007

The oil companies show up

The small company Enex Resources wants to get its hands on the energy potential in this territory.

Subscribers only Business 21.09.2007

James Mutua Mulinge

The retired officer that President Mwai Kibaki has just appointed to be the next Kenyan ambassador to Somalia may have [...]

Subscribers only 21.09.2007

Somaliland
Total has its eye on Hargeisa too

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from a Somalian businessman passing through Hargeisa, a delegation from Total’s [...]

Subscribers only 12.09.2007

McLeod Dixon
Advising Somalia

The so-named Somalia Petroleum Law Team, which put together a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.09.2007

Spotlight
Looking for an oil partner

Alongside the insecurity which rules in Mogadishu, a struggle for influence is under way over the choice of international partner to explore for oil in the country. While President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and his liege and namesake, the Minister for [.

Subscribers only Politics 07.09.2007

The American Marines are back

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from a Kenyan diplomatic source in charge of security issues in [...]

Subscribers only Politics 07.09.2007

New Welcome for Oilmen

Somalia plans to enact new oil legislation aimed at persuading oil companies that held acreage in the country before December, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.08.2007

Medco Bets on Mogadishu

Unlike a number of juniors which have dealt with the breakaway authorities in Somaliland and Puntland, Medco has signed up with the central government.

Subscribers only Energy 28.08.2007

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Somalia

Seeking End to Oil Dispute

Eric Laroche

Ministers with dual nationality

Delegation from Somaliland

Internal splits among the Islamists

Oil Kerfuffle in Puntland

Somalia
A non-State decapitated

Africa Oil Corporation

American spies in Bosaso?

Susannah Price

Jarand Rystad

Horn of Africa
A French escort vessel for Somalia

Africa Oil Winds Up Seismic Campaign

The Mejerteen sew up diplomacy

Secret services in Somalia strengthened

An American in Puntland

Lukoil To Come Calling

The oil companies show up

James Mutua Mulinge

Somaliland
Total has its eye on Hargeisa too

McLeod Dixon
Advising Somalia

Spotlight
Looking for an oil partner

The American Marines are back

New Welcome for Oilmen

Medco Bets on Mogadishu

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Virtus Minerals

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Savannah Energy

Denis Sassou-Nguesso

Somalia

Seeking End to Oil Dispute

Eric Laroche

Ministers with dual nationality

Delegation from Somaliland

Internal splits among the Islamists

Oil Kerfuffle in Puntland

Somalia A non-State decapitated

Africa Oil Corporation

American spies in Bosaso?

Susannah Price

Jarand Rystad

Horn of Africa A French escort vessel for Somalia

Africa Oil Winds Up Seismic Campaign

The Mejerteen sew up diplomacy

Secret services in Somalia strengthened

An American in Puntland

Lukoil To Come Calling

The oil companies show up

James Mutua Mulinge

Somaliland Total has its eye on Hargeisa too

McLeod Dixon Advising Somalia

Spotlight Looking for an oil partner

The American Marines are back

New Welcome for Oilmen

Medco Bets on Mogadishu

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Africa Intelligence on social media

Indigo Publications' websites

Somalia
A non-State decapitated

Horn of Africa
A French escort vessel for Somalia

Somaliland
Total has its eye on Hargeisa too

McLeod Dixon
Advising Somalia

Spotlight
Looking for an oil partner