Gas deal a victory for Russia but won’t leave Europe dry

At a technology fair in Moscow last month, European executives faced the new reality of doing business in Russia since the West imposed sanctions: the number of companies at the international showcase had shrunk by half from a year ago.

The Eritreans who get tattoos before fleeing to Europe

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>Energy and Minerals minister Sospeter Muhongo yesterday heightened the rift between the executive and the legislative arms of government by reiterating that his ministry will not submit the oil and natural gas production sharing agreements (PSAs) for scrutiny by the Public Accounts Committee.

Nairobi-based asset leasing firm, Vehicle and Equipment Leasing Limited (Vaell) has won a $4 million deal to provide graders, lease excavators, compressors, drills, breakers, tippers and wheel loaders to a group of mining firms in Tanzania.

While officials in Brussels were calling for Europe to reduce its dependency on Russian natural gas and negotiate with Moscow as a bloc, Austria was quietly bypassing the European Commission to cut its own bilateral deal on building a pipeline.

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South Sudan government spending on its military sector rose to $1.6 billion

>A former business partner at Ophir Energy, a leading oil and gas exploration company, has sued the firm for allegedly locking him out of lucrative deals fraudulently.