{"id":6998,"date":"2012-01-13T08:37:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T06:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/equatorial-guinea-to-sell-crude-to-swaziland-report\/"},"modified":"2012-01-13T08:37:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T06:37:28","slug":"equatorial-guinea-to-sell-crude-to-swaziland-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/equatorial-guinea-to-sell-crude-to-swaziland-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Equatorial Guinea to sell crude to Swaziland -report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Jan 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Equatorial Guinea has<br \/>\nagreed to supply Swaziland with crude oil, but the product will<br \/>\nfirst need to be refined in neighbouring South Africa, the<br \/>\nBusiness Report said on Friday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Swaziland, which currently sources all of its fuel products<br \/>\nfrom South Africa, does not have its own refinery.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Quoting government officials, the paper said the deal was<br \/>\nclinched during a meeting between Equatorial Guinea President<br \/>\nTeodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and King Mswati III of Swaziland.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There were no details on the volume of crude oil to be sold<br \/>\nto Swaziland or how the impoverished country would pay for it.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Swaziland is Africa&#8217;s last absolute monarchy which analysts<br \/>\nsaid has been run for years almost as a personal fiefdom by King<br \/>\nMswati III and now teeters on the brink of financial collapse.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa has offered a bailout loan but Swaziland has<br \/>\nrefused, seeing attached conditions calling for political<br \/>\nreforms as too stringent, government officials said.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Agnieszka Flak; Editing by Phumza Macanda)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Jan 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Equatorial Guinea has agreed to supply Swaziland with crude oil, but the product will first need to be refined in neighbouring South Africa, the Business Report said on Friday. Swaziland, which currently sources all of its fuel products from South Africa, does not have its own refinery. Quoting government officials, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}