🌐Weekly News Digest [ February 2 – February 8 ]
That was a week when we learned about what Epsteinhad to do with Africa's oil...
💡...and, there were other highlights:
🇦🇴 Angola
— Opposition Group Declares Independence of Oil-Rich Enclave of Cabinda from Angola
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
— Burkina Faso Boasts of Record Gold Extraction
🇨🇩 DR Congo
— DRC Government Releases Official Response to Rubaya Mine Collapse
— US State-Backed Consortium Buys 40% Shares of Two Large Copper-Cobalt Mines From Swiss Company
— US Virtus Minerals to Purchase Congolese Copper Producer Chemaf
🇬🇭 Ghana
— Private Refinery Makes First Bars From Artisanal Gold Collected by State
— French Troops Train Ghanaian Army to Fight Illegal Gold Miners
🇱🇷 Liberia
— Ivanhoe Atlantic Appoints Team of US Nationals to Its Board to Facilitate Its Iron Project
🇳🇦 Namibia
— Brazil’s Petrobras and France’s TotalEnergies Acquire 85% of Namibia's Oil Field
🇳🇬 Nigeria
— Nigeria’s State Oil Corporation Faces Corruption Lawsuit from Local NGO
— Nigerians Protest Against Rampimg Up Oil Production In Niger Delta
— Nigerian Court Delivers Guilty Verdict Against UK
🇿🇲 Zambia
— Delegation From Finland Arrives in Zambia
🌍 Global
— US Creates Reserve of Critical Minerals for Civilian Industry
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🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/MSI-Claw-Configuration-Driver
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🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/05/13/rust-stalks-ibm-mainframes-but-only-in-nightly-form/5239710
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🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/13/linux-gains-more-critical-windows-apps-3d-movie-maker-and-space-cadet-pinball/5239455
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🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/discord-joke-that-its-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop/
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🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-1-3-linux-firmware-updater-adds-support-for-shift6mq-and-shiftphone-8
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Choosing a Linux desktop used to be a make-or-break decision, but nowadays, things are much less complicated.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/tested-every-linux-desktop-realized-fragmentation-problem-anymore/
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📰 F2FS Preparing FSERROR Reporting Support
Introduced in Linux 7.0 was FSERROR as generic I/O error reporting infrastructure. Linux to that point had no standardized mechanism for reporting metadata corruption or file I/O errors to user-space with each file-system doing its own thing. The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is now the latest Linux file-system preparing for FSERROR usage...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/F2FS-FSERROR
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🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0.6-Released
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