Nankwanga Eunice Kasirye

By Nankwanga Eunice Kasirye  Betty Kamya  Betty Kamya is now the minister for Kampala City Authority in President Museveni’s fifth term, such a controversial appointment given her last ten year political life. Doubts and rumor about her  shaky a llegiance   to the political opposition started early this year after she started criticizing her most recent boss Dr Kizza Besigye’s approach of defiance against President Yoweri Museveni’s government. But who is this outspoken woman of surprises: She became a household name in the 2001 elections as the spokesperson of the Reform Agenda, a political group formed by Dr. Kizza Besigye months before the elections. She remained the face of Reform Agenda and later Forum for Democratic Change party at the time when a number of leaders of the group went into exile, including its leader Kizza Besigye and spokesperson Anne Mugisha From 2005 until 2010, she served as the Special Envoy of the FDC president Kizza Besigy...

Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy has launched the country’s latest oil and gas blocks licensing round, EG Ronda 2016 at the Africa Oil & Power conference. Companies are now able to submit letters of interest to the Ministry, and to view the official map of available blocks. The Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy intends to build upon Equatorial Guinea’s strong reputation for exploration success by inviting oil and gas companies with the requisite financial and technical competency to explore its blocks. A total of 114 discoveries have been made in the country to date, with 48 resulting in discoveries. The discovery success rate of 42 percent is double the global average.  Equatorial Guinea is pushing ahead to develop energy infrastructure, including storage, petrochemicals and floating LNG, which will support and incentivize further exploration and production. Minister of Mines, Industry and Energy H.E. ...