LOKICHAR, Kenya — On a recent Sunday afternoon in Lokichar, a small town in Kenya’s northern Turkana region, the expansive grounds of the Black Gold Hotel are deserted, aside from a couple of ...

Donald Trump returned to office with a vow to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) “right to the top” after his predecessor Joe Biden had overseen a historic release to mitigate the painful ...

Fossil fuels have enriched a wealthy few, undermined economic development and left African economies exposed to external shocks, a new report published May 8 in Nairobi, Kenya, argues. Examining 13 ...

The North African nation of 47 million people has long relied on some of the continent's largest oil and gas reserves to pay for many of its subsidies. Image by vovashevchuk via iStock Algerian ...

Jamaica is weighing the economic and energy-security benefits of potential offshore oil development against the environmental and climate risks facing one of the Caribbean’s most vulnerable island ...

In 2023, when Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, Iñupiaq, was mayor of Nuiqsut, a federally recognized village of 500 residents on Alaska’s North Slope Borough, a gas leak from a nearby oil operation left her ...

Nairobi-based Gulf Energy is reviving a dormant project to extract oil from northwestern Kenya, five years after the previous operator, Tullow Oil, abandoned the field. Residents of Turkana county say ...