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Articles by Amara Okonkwo
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Zelensky presses Washington for new Russia sanctions as war enters autumn
The Ukrainian president's call for immediate measures, highlighted in mid-September briefings, lands on a US capital absorbed by its own energy-inflated midterm campaign and managing the Iran war's sanctions architecture.
Amara Okonkwo
World
EIA sees Brent near $90 through the second half as supply slowly rebuilds
The US Energy Information Administration's latest Short-Term Energy Outlook forecasts Brent averaging around $90 a barrel in the second half of 2026, easing only as production rises and inventories rebuild into 2027.
Amara Okonkwo
World
General Assembly opens with the Iran war atop the agenda
The UN's annual session begins September 8 with a diplomatic season shaped by the strike pause, the strait's unresolved status and the region's reconstruction claims, six months after the Council could not fully condemn the war's opening.
Amara Okonkwo
World
US midterm campaign opens its final stretch with energy prices front and center
The Labor Day turn into the November 3 elections arrives with gasoline and heating costs inflated by the Iran war, and both parties framing the strait, OPEC+ and the naval blockade as campaign material.
Amara Okonkwo
World
OPEC+ holds output steady for October as quota talks loom
The September 6 meeting kept production at September's levels for October, pausing the increases the group had run since the war began and turning attention to the new quota framework.
Amara Okonkwo