OhFunny posted:

PetroChina to replace Exxon as lead contractor for Iraq's West Qurna 1 oilfield

This brings an end to Exxon's involvement in Iraq's energy sector.

ikanreed posted:

quote:

The semi-official website, Tesfanews, has published strong attacks on the UAE for its role in encouraging war with Ethiopia.

It also appeals to the Saudis to intervene, which explains why President Isaias spent such a lengthy time in Saudi Arabia talking to the leadership.

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/martinplaut/status/1725471024827846975

i say swears online posted:

NEOM update!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6T5HrLb4SM

Nothanda Magudulela posted:

Banks accused of generating trillion in alleged Rand manipulation

The Competition Commission says implicated banks in the alleged rand manipulation have generated about a trillion rand a day between 2007 and 2013, the Divisional Manager for Cartels at the Competition Commission Makgale Mohlala told the Competition Tribunal this week.

Five of the 28 banks have admitted to taking part in the alleged foreign exchange manipulation 16 years ago.

Siyabonga Sithole posted:

Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) has admitted to engaging in the manipulation of the rand alongside 17 other banks accused of engaging in unethical conduct.

On Wednesday, the bank became another commercial bank that admitted to wrongdoing and agreed to pay a penalty of R42 million to the Competition Commission for its role in conspiring to rig trades involving the US dollar-rand currency pair.

Susan Combre posted:

PetroSA pushes for R3.7bn deal with Russia

The state-owned Petroleum Oil and Gas Corporation of South Africa (PetroSA) wants to partner with Russia’s Gazprombank to restart the gas-to-liquids refinery in Mossel Bay.

PetroSA advertised a tender in January looking for a partner willing to invest at least $200-million (R3.7-billion) to refurbish the refinery.

Twenty companies submitted bids, but the unusually strict technical criteria meant that 19 of the 20 were eliminated, leaving Gazprombank’s local subsidiary, GPB Africa & Middle East, as the only qualifying bid.

However, leaked documents, seen by amaBhungane, reveal that the PetroSA bid evaluation committee and board raised concerns about partnering with Gazprombank, which is under US sanctions, and advised PetroSA to enter into negotiations with other bidders, including Azerbaijan’s state oil company, SOCAR, and China’s state-owned energy infrastructure company, CMEC.

i say swears online posted:

that does seem like a signficant departure tbh

mawarannahr posted:

someone brought up the idea in turkey of a referendum on staying in nato. although this is unlikely to happen it did raise some questions -- what would happen to Turkey if it were not in nato?

mawarannahr posted:

someone brought up the idea in turkey of a referendum on staying in nato. although this is unlikely to happen it did raise some questions -- what would happen to Turkey if it were not in nato?

Plutonis posted:

Armenia retakes mount Ararat and Greece retakes the coast. Also Free Kurdistan and the rest of the country gets Gunther Fehlinger'd

Plutonis posted:

Armenia retakes mount Ararat and Greece retakes the coast. Also Free Kurdistan and the rest of the country gets Gunther Fehlinger'd

Mushika posted:

So I'm yet again blundering into a thread that some rando just mildly suggested I check out.

Somali piracy. Where should I begin? There are 300 pages of posts, I don't know what has been covered or what I should even begin to talk about.

The spread of Bantu languages? Coastal trade along the eastern coast of Africa and how Swahili and Islam shaped the coast of the horn of Africa and the cultures of southeast Asia during what white people call the Medieval age?

Let me display my flawed memory when talking about all these things, and correct my shaken-baby brain.

Mushika posted:

So I'm yet again blundering into a thread that some rando just mildly suggested I check out.

Somali piracy. Where should I begin? There are 300 pages of posts, I don't know what has been covered or what I should even begin to talk about.

The spread of Bantu languages? Coastal trade along the eastern coast of Africa and how Swahili and Islam shaped the coast of the horn of Africa and the cultures of southeast Asia during what white people call the Medieval age?

Let me display my flawed memory when talking about all these things, and correct my shaken-baby brain.

Mister Bates posted:

the Somali pirates still exist in the sense that they didn't all literally die and most of the people who participated in it are probably still alive somewhere, but Somali piracy as a distinct phenomenon was very much a flash in the pan thing and mostly died off years ago

Mushika posted:

So I'm yet again blundering into a thread that some rando just mildly suggested I check out.

Somali piracy. Where should I begin? There are 300 pages of posts, I don't know what has been covered or what I should even begin to talk about.

The spread of Bantu languages? Coastal trade along the eastern coast of Africa and how Swahili and Islam shaped the coast of the horn of Africa and the cultures of southeast Asia during what white people call the Medieval age?

Let me display my flawed memory when talking about all these things, and correct my shaken-baby brain.

i say swears online posted:

take us to mystical zanzibar plz

Mushika posted:

I'm very specifically not doing that. I'm not pretending to be an expert at, well, loving anything. I just have a background in some stuff. A background that I vehemently welcome criticism of.

Including my use of dangling participles.

i say swears online posted:

i can already smell the spices of the wond'rous east, please continue