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Total Deal Catalyst for Uganda Oil, COVID-19 Should Not Delay Upstream final investment decision

On 23 April 2020, Total announced it had signed a deal with Tullow Oil to acquire its long-standing stakes in the Uganda Lake Albert project for $575 million May 14, 2020/Africa Oil & Power Conference By Thomas Hedley, Field Editor, Africa Oil & Power Hosted under the theme ‘Taking Advantage […]

Standard Chartered donates USD11.8m for immediate COVID-19 relief efforts across Africa and the Middle East

The donations will contribute to programmes providing urgent medical support and the protection and education of vulnerable children May 14, 2020/Standard Chartered Standard Chartered (https://www.SC.com/) today announced donations totalling USD11,8 million to the Red Cross, UNICEF and local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and Government Partners providing emergency relief in countries across […]

Coronavirus and the future of trust and populism

May 14, 2020 By EBRD multimedia team The recent 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer revealed a dramatic turnaround in levels of popular trust in governments, from their lowest to highest ever recorded levels. Indeed, government is now the institution most people trust, for the first time in the survey’s 20-year history. How […]