Why gas is holding up the oil The Orange Basin’s oil comes with a great deal of gas. Shell wrote down its Namibian discoveries as uncommercial in January 2025 for that reason. TotalEnergies believes it can cope. Its plan for Venus is to reinject the gas to get the oil
EnergyX’s ten-year, $2 billion take-or-pay agreement to supply Trafigura with 100,000 tonnes of lithium from Chile and the United States matters less for its size than for what it signals. A commodities trader is backing direct lithium extraction (DLE), a technology still proving itself commercially, and the demand behind it
What actually happened One correction first. Adwa fell without a fight. Federal troops and the Tigray Peace Force, a federally backed Tigrayan militia, entered on Sunday 11 October after TPLF-aligned fighters withdrew, according to residents. Mekelle was different. Al Jazeera reported nearly two weeks of heavy fighting, with federal air
Thursday’s slide in European and Korean chip stocks looks, on the surface, like a rates story. US inflation came in hotter, talk of Federal Reserve tightening grew louder, and technology valuations fell. For anyone building or buying AI, the more useful reading is different. The sector’s central question is shifting
Why Rwanda, and why now Africa’s absence from the calendar was hard to defend. Kyalami hosted the South African Grand Prix from the 1960s to the mid-1980s and again in 1992 and 1993, and Lewis Hamilton has long said he wants a race on the continent before he retires. South
Iran has asked BRICS to give health cooperation a proper structure. Speaking on TV BRICS’s “BRICSdialogue”, Shahid Beheshti University epidemiologist Ahmad Mehri proposed a standing health diplomacy platform. It would connect officials, specialised universities, medical associations, researchers and private companies, with one test of success: practical projects that improve people’s
Why the diagnosis holds Manamela argued that AI makes the university’s traditional work more urgent: questioning arguments, testing evidence and taking responsibility for knowledge. AI systems can produce content without establishing whether it is true. The labour market gives that argument weight. Graduates recorded 12.4% unemployment in the second quarter
Affordability is the engine Chinese brands now hold about 19.1% of the passenger and light commercial market, up from roughly 4% in 2021. Chinese sales grew 72% year on year in the second quarter of 2026, against 3% for traditional manufacturers, taking their share to about 22%. The figures differ
A country already stretched to breaking point Start with the citizens the state already fails. Statistics South Africa puts official unemployment in the second quarter at 33.6 percent, with 8.5 million people jobless. Among those aged 15 to 34 the rate is 47.4 percent, which means 5 million young South
Reports that Washington and Moscow have discussed finding a US investor for Nord Stream, and arranging Russian gas sales to Europe, have revived one of the energy sector’s most contentious ideas. According to Reuters, US envoy Jared Kushner and Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, have met in