Error of judgment? US President Trump’s scramble for Venezuelan oil coincides with transition shrinking appetite for fossil fuel

Error of judgment? US President Trump’s scramble for Venezuelan oil coincides with transition shrinking appetite for fossil fuel

Experts caution that a number of realities – including international oil prices and longer-term questions of stability in the country – are likely to make this oil revolution much harder to execute than Trump seems to think.

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Inside Congo’s killing fields, sickly and exploited artisanal miners slave away for world’s indifferent tech economies

Inside Congo’s killing fields, sickly and exploited artisanal miners slave away for world’s indifferent tech economies

Josaphat Musamba, a Congolese researcher and PhD student at Ghent University in Belgium, said suppressing the militia would be a tall order for the DRC’s military, which is no longer present in large swathes of M23-controlled territory.

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