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Continue reading →: WATCHDOG ALERT: ReconAfrica’s Current Announcement Mirrors a History of Deception and Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Founder J. Jay Park
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 8, 2025 Issued by: Saving Okavango’s Unique Life. SOUL is concerned that recent media headlines suggesting that ReconAfrica has discovered oil in the Kavango are misleading. The December 03 press release from NAMCOR and Reconnaissance Energy Africa announcing that they found “64 net metres of hydrocarbon…
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Continue reading →: Letter to Canadian Trade Minister regarding their ongoing support for human rights violations.
The Honourable Maninder SidhuMinister of International TradeHouse of CommonsOttawa, ON K1A 0A6September 30, 2025 Subject: Strengthening the Canadian Ombudsman for Responsible Enterprise (CORE)Dear Minister Sidhu, Saving Okavango’s Unique Life (SOUL) represents Namibian Civil Society organisations and communities affected by Canadian oil company ReconAfrica. On April 9, 2024, the International Human…
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Continue reading →: Namibian MP Eneas Emvula calls for investigation into ReconAfrica
The Honourable Eneas Emvula requests an investigation and moratorium. The call for an investigation comes after years of controversy surrounding the oil driller including allegations of human rights violations by the University of Toronto’s International Human Rights Program detailed in a 187 page complaint to Canada’s CORE Ombudsperson.
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Continue reading →: Angolan NGO calls for Canadian oil company ReconAfrica’s license to be cancelled.
Rob Parker May 05, 2025 On April 17, Recon Africa announced an agreement for a joint exploration project in Angola with the Agência Nacional de Petróleo, Gás e Biocombustíveis or National Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency in a press release. It said that ReconAfrica entered into a Memorandum of Understanding…
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Continue reading →: No oil, no money. ReconAfrica keeps investors in the dark.
ReconAfrica’s SEDAR filings submitted on the 29th of April 2025 can be found here: https://www.sedarplus.ca/landingpage/#scrollTop ReconAfrica’s Statement of Reserve Data begins with 5 pages of disclaimers and warnings that most everything company says should be construed as a ”Forward looking statement” for example: ”expectations regarding the Company’s interpretation of data…
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Continue reading →: Doubts surround ReconAfrica’s ‘Working Petroleum System’
This story was submitted to New Era newspaper in April 2022 but was never published. ReconAfrica spokesperson Ndapewoshali Shapwanale, the Canadian company’s spokesperson at the time, threatened the journalist’s livelihood for asking questions about whether the company had actually found oil. The journalist’s name has been removed as he fears…
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Continue reading →: Trove News drags ReconAfrica.
On the 13th of April 2025, TROVE News YouTube Channel which brings you “The biggest and the best oil and gas stories from across the world’’ discusses ReconAfrica’s well results. The video gets to ReconAfrica at 3.07 and evaluates the statements and claims of the disgraced Canadian company. The video…
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Continue reading →: Discord Gods, Part 2
The Echo Chamber This is the second installment of our popular Discord Gods story, the first of which you can read here. Rob Parker March 24, 2025 A key component in Canadian oil company ReconAfrica’s messaging machine about their Namibian oil and gas exploration operation has been their Encore ReconAfrica…
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Continue reading →: Discord Gods.
Part one. Slick Promotion Pumps ReconAfrica Stock Rob Parker, February 27, 2025 A sudden rise in ReconAfrica’s stock price at the end of January 2025, followed by a similarly steep and rapid decline, concerned a group of ReconAfrica investors. In stock discussion forums and private conversations, these investors claim the…
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Continue reading →: Ronk’s Stonk and two smoking barrels.
Did ReconAfrica promoters reference an “astrology” website operated by a recidivist stock offender in order to increase the company’s share value? Rob Parker Thursday, February 13, 2025 A convicted stock promotion charlatan was deeply involved in what appears to be a well orchestrated pump and dump scheme to increase the…
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Continue reading →: RECONAFRICA WEBINAR AND CONFERENCE CALL.
Lipstick on a pig. CALGARY, AB, Feb. 11, 2025 /CNW/ – Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. (the “Company” or “ReconAfrica”) (TSXV: RECO) (OTCQX: RECAF) (Frankfurt: 0XD) (NSX: REC) announces a webinar and conference call for investors and analysts on Thursday February 13, 2025 at 11:00 am Eastern Time. Participants will include Brian Reinsborough, President and CEO, and Chris Sembritzky,…
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Continue reading →: “As of March 31, 2024, the Company has no reserves”
STATEMENT OF RESERVES DATA AND OTHER OIL AND GAS INFORMATION As of March 31, 2024 The full statement can be found here. https://reconafrica.com/_resources/NSAI/ReconAfrica-51-101F1%20March_31%2C_2024.pdf?v=100807
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Continue reading →: ReconAfrica changed their narrative after Namibian Ministry of Energy press release killed their unconventional play.
September 15, 2021 TSX Venture Exchange 685 Centre Street SW Suite 2110 Calgary AB T2G Re: Potential Unreported Material Changes and/or Misrepresentations made by Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. Introduction Through this document, Above Ground, the Center for International Environmental Law, and the Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment…
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Continue reading →: Did ReconAfrica’s 2021 media partner fabricate analysts to pump stock? The story the majors missed. This could be worth billions.
OilPrice.com online Investigation from 2021. Note: After information from this investigation was published, in the Globe and Mail and other places, oilprice.com changed the search functions, links and more on his site. However, copies exist of these articles have been preserved by the wayback machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20210721142330/https://oilprice.com/search/tab/articles/Reconafrica Oil drillers media partner…
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Continue reading →: Craig Steinke’s funny farm out deal in Botswana netted him 10 m. Recon has never even done an EIA in Botswana.
Craig Steinke is a founder and majority shareholder of ReconAfrica and polo patron. Steinke’s private company R2 Energy renamed itself Renaissance Oil in 2014 and became a publicly traded company. Renaissance then purchased several fracking-based assets in Mexico which Steinke told investors was a ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’. The…
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