Africa is embracing oil and gas. Oil from the Lake Albert field is about to start flowing down the pipeline from Uganda to the port of Tanga in Tanzania. Dangote has said he'll build a refinery there as well, so long as everyone in the region agrees. The pipeline has been built so that oil from the DR Congo and South Sudan can also travel along it. Not all oil is being exported, a percentage is held back where it is extracted, to support local businesses in Uganda. Things are really looking up.
Showing posts with label Kenya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kenya. Show all posts
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March 15, 2019
IAAF Diamond League Changes
The Diamond League are scrapping long distance athletic track events:
https://www.sport24.co.za/OtherSport/Athletics/kenya-slams-iaaf-scrapping-of-5-000m-in-diamond-league-20190314
Kenya and other east African countries are rightfully outraged. They've dominated these events for most of the last 50 years.
Lesson: Europe make it up as they're going along and if they find they cannot win, they ban it. Everyone should take note, especially New Zealand's All Blacks who are dominant in Rugby Union and almost never lose. Get that good and the Europeans ban you. Oh yes, the World League at the stroke of a pen wrote out smaller Pacific Island nations, they're seen as feeders only. It's the old colonial mindset. And if you need a further athletics example, Athletics started talking about scrapping the shot put from the Olympics at the same time non-Europeans started becoming dominant.
https://www.sport24.co.za/OtherSport/Athletics/kenya-slams-iaaf-scrapping-of-5-000m-in-diamond-league-20190314
Kenya and other east African countries are rightfully outraged. They've dominated these events for most of the last 50 years.
Lesson: Europe make it up as they're going along and if they find they cannot win, they ban it. Everyone should take note, especially New Zealand's All Blacks who are dominant in Rugby Union and almost never lose. Get that good and the Europeans ban you. Oh yes, the World League at the stroke of a pen wrote out smaller Pacific Island nations, they're seen as feeders only. It's the old colonial mindset. And if you need a further athletics example, Athletics started talking about scrapping the shot put from the Olympics at the same time non-Europeans started becoming dominant.
August 22, 2018
ARM Cement
Something I learnt from Twitter; ARM Cement has gone into administration. They're Kenya's second largest cement producer, and have operations in Tanzania and Rwanda as well, on top of minority holdings in South Africa.