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About The Project
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) requested a product from the Fall 2013 Strategic Intelligence class at Mercyhurst University. A group of five undergraduate students were selected to work on this project. The Mercyhurst NGA Africa Strategic Team conducted this research from 25 September 2013 to 15 November 2013.


 * **REQUIREMENT:** **Where have Chinese investments in petroleum, natural gas, and strategic minerals (PNGSM) in Sub-Saharan Africa occurred and where will they likely occur in the next five years?**

//(See the Terms Of Reference for additional details, including the secondary questions and early thoughts on how the Mercyhurst NGA Africa Strategic Team approached this topic)//

Navigating The Wiki
The Navigation Pane, to the left, lists important pages where the reader should go for information.


 * Key Findings: The reader can find the answer to the Terms of Reference by regional and subject focus on the Key Findings page.
 * Table Of Contents: This page contains a list and links to every page on this Wiki.
 * Terms Of Reference: This page contains the requirements and methods of the project that the NGA and Mercyhurst NGA Africa Strategic Team agreed upon at the beginning of the project.
 * Useful Resources: This page contains a list of useful websites and databases which the Mercyhurst NGA Africa Strategic Team found particularly useful throughout the course of their research.
 * Analysts' Contact Information: This page contains the contact information for all analysts who contributed to the this project. Visit it for information on contacting team members for questions/comments.

Understanding The Reports
The Mercyhurst NGA Africa Strategic Team included a number of special features in order to make the reports easier to read and the process, sourcing and analysis, transparent.
 * Words Of Estimative Probability: The Mercyhurst NGA Africa Team used words of estimative probability as proposed by Sherman Kent. These terms (highly likely, likely, unlikely, and highly unlikely) indicate the degree of probability of an estimative judgement.
 * Analytic Confidence: At the end of each report, the author or authors responsible assigned ratings that capture analytic confidence. Confidence ranks from Low to Medium to High and is measured through seven components (Use of Structured Method(s) in Analysis, Overall Source Reliability, Source Collaboration/Agreement, Level of Expertise on Subject/Topic & Enterprise, Amount of Collaboration, Task Complexity, and TIme Pressure) proposed by Josh Peterson.
 * Sourcing: The Mercyhurst NGA Africa Strategic Team provided sources with each report in order to increase analytic transparency and provide a resource list for further research.