Europe Does A Complete U-Turn On African Oil And Gas

European governments are scouring the world for natural gas as they seek to reduce their overwhelming and increasingly uncomfortable dependence on Russia's Gazprom. Besides the United States, which has done its best to supply as much LNG as possible to its European allies, several African countries have emerged as potential sources of additional gas supplies. But they are not exactly happy about it. "The gas here goes to Bonny and Europe to power homes and industries but we have no benefits from it," one local community development activist from…