OIL AND GAS IN THE AFRICAN CONTINENT - Africa Has Great Energy Production Potential, but Political Unrest Impedes Progress

摘要

Today, Africa is split into some 50 free states or more with a total population estimated at 842 million, All these states have been formed after the end of the colonization era and the political situation today is still fluid (a recent referendum has indicated that in July 2011 Sudan will be divided into two states, North and South Sudan) With the exception of South Africa the word democracy is more or less unknown The majority of African states are ruled by dictators in a military or tribal form. From the geographic, ethnic and cultural point of view the continent can be divided into two parts: North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.