The Congolese government is choosing to compromise with Luanda by signing agreements of limited scope rather than going to court to assert its rights to its offshore oil resources. [...] An agreement signed on 22 December between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola was not in the end a major step in the revision of the Zone of Common Interest (ZIC) agreed in 2007 by the two countries. It concerns the sharing of production from just two offshore oil fields, Negage and Menonge. The fields are located in block 14 off the coast of the Congolese province of Kongo-Central and are operated by a consortium led by the US firm Chevron. The agreement reached in December lets the two countries, via

ogbe Afede XIV, Paramount Chief of Asogli state “The Ghana we have today is obviously not what our founding fathers dreamt of”, the Paramount Chief of Asogli state, Togbe Afede XIV, has said. “We have failed woefully but have pretended otherwise,” he emphasised. According to him, instead of giving hope, Ghana’s leaders have created a frightening sense of helplessness among the populace, especially the youth. Referring to a statement he made during a courtesy visit by the Speaker of Parliament in December 2021, he reiterated his concern that if Ghana were a company, it would have filed for bankruptcy. He pointed to the nation's recourse to the IMF for a bailout and the implementation of the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP), resulting in defaulting on