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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10946
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) africa

In North and South Africa, the future is shale gas

Brussels, 18/10/2013 (Agence Europe) - Could shale gas prove to be manna for Africa, and in particular the north of the continent bordering the Mediterranean and, at the opposite end, South Africa?

A recent report by the African Development Bank (AfDB) says that this is very possible but does not address the technical and political decisions to be made. It sets out both the advantages and disadvantages, principally environment- and soil stability-related, using the US experience as its...

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