Guyanese cartoonist highlights oil boom, corruption 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....
Tiny Guyana threatened by ‘oil curse’ 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...
Arctic shipping grows as ice melts 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...
Oil-cursed Equatorial Guinea At first glance, the small West African nation of Equatorial Guinea is doing well. Sandwiched between Cameroon and Gabon on the Gulf of Guinea,...
Equatorial Guinea’s extravagant prince Teodorín Obiang giving a speech as Minister of Agriculture in 2010. (Creative Commons/Embassy of EG) Mansions in Malibu and on Paris's...
Equatorial Guinea’s oil curse At first glance, the small West African nation of Equatorial Guinea is doing well. Sandwiched between Cameroon and Gabon on the Gulf of Guinea,...
‘Big Men’ shows Nigerian shadow over Ghana’s oil Oil discoveries should bring prosperity. Yet new producer Ghana is haunted by the oil-fueled problems of nearby Nigeria. When the American oil...