Catherine Cheney

Catherine Cheney is World Politics Review's Trend Lines Reporter. Previously, she was a web producer and staff writer at POLITICO in Washington, D.C. Catherine has reported internationally from countries including Peru, where she wrote for the U.N. magazine the InterDependent, and Germany, where she spent two months as an Arthur F. Burns fellow at Spiegel Online International. Her print and video reporting has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic, among other publications. Catherine has B.A. and M.A. degrees in political science from Yale University.

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Regional Coordination Needed for East African Oil Investment

By Catherine Cheney
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Over the past decade, rising energy prices and new techniques and technologies have allowed global energy companies to bring online new oil and gas reserves in East African countries, including Tanzania and Mozambique. But as the demand for fossil fuels grows among energy-hungry emerging economies, investors are also opening up production in previously unexplored areas. And in East Africa, this means major opportunity as well as major uncertainty. more