Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
Guyanese cartoonist highlights oil boom, corruption
By  • 23 February 2018
When Paul Harris entered a newspaper cartooning competition in Guyana in 1983, he did it not because he wanted to but to make his father happy. [caption id="attachment_9104" align="alignleft" width="173"] Guyanese cartoonist Paul Harris (courtesy)[/caption]…
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Tiny Guyana threatened by 'oil curse'
By  • 22 February 2018
Most people probably know little about the tiny South American nation of Guyana. In the U.S., it made headlines back in the late 1970s after an American cult leader named Jim Jones took his followers…
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Arctic shipping grows as ice melts
By  • 23 November 2017
For hundreds of years, European explorers sought a direct sea route from Europe to Asia. Now as Arctic ice melts, just such a route is opening across northern Russia.  In August a Russian-owned tanker carrying…
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Oil-cursed Equatorial Guinea
By  • 24 December 2015
At first glance, the small West African nation of Equatorial Guinea is doing well. Sandwiched between Cameroon and Gabon on the Gulf of Guinea, the oil-rich nation of 820,000 has a per capita GDP equivalent…
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Equatorial Guinea's extravagant prince
By , , • 2 October 2015
[caption id="attachment_5759" align="alignleft" width="225"] Teodorín Obiang giving a speech as Minister of Agriculture in 2010. (Creative Commons/Embassy of EG)[/caption] Mansions in Malibu and on Paris's prestigious Avenue Foch. A luxury car collection that includes Ferraris,…
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Equatorial Guinea's oil curse
By  • 1 October 2015
At first glance, the small West African nation of Equatorial Guinea is doing well. Sandwiched between Cameroon and Gabon on the Gulf of Guinea, the oil-rich nation of 820,000 has a per capita GDP equivalent…
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'Big Men' shows Nigerian shadow over Ghana's oil
By  • 12 August 2014
Oil discoveries should bring prosperity. Yet new producer Ghana is haunted by the oil-fueled problems of nearby Nigeria. When the American oil company Kosmos Energy came to Ghana for the first time in 2005, no…
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