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« Blackburn for Senate? | Main | Zell The Truth » September 1, 2004Sao Tome Update: All The Right Moves?AllAfrica.com reports from Libreville, Gabon, on developments involving oil exploration in Africa, and the battle against terrorism: A senior US military commander and an influential Republican senator will visit oil-producing Gabon and the potentially oil-rich state of Sao Tome and Principe this week to discuss security, oil and environmental issues, a US embassy spokeswoman said on Monday.The US government is currently paying for feasibility studies on the construction of a deep water port and extension of the single runway at the airport on Sao Tome, a former Portuguese colony that sits atop extensive untapped oil reserves. I've blogged news about Sao Tome several times before. Click here. The Bush administration's quiet diplomacy in this part of Africa is one of the under-reported stories in the War on Terror. If efforts to democratize the Middle East either don't succeed or don't result in a reduction of Islamist terrorism, sourcing our oil from pro-western non-Islamic countries like Sao Tome could be a good second option. Here's a related report from Reuters. Posted in Around the Globe
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