Court Case May Have Far-Reaching Implications for Mining Companies PRESS RELEASE By Dewa Mavhinga 25th April 2018 This week, the…
Rampal power plant – condemned by Norwegian Ethics Council
Published by MAC on 2018-03-21 Norway’s Council on Ethics advises the Government Pension Fund Global on its investments, making recommendations…
India: With Goa’s MLAs Set to Ask for Mining Lease Extensions, the Politician-Miner Nexus Comes Full Circle
By Claude Alvares and Rahul Basu on 04/03/2018 The Wire 4 March 2018 The state’s politicians could’ve used recent court…
Tanzania: Court Remands Four Miners for Deliberate Environmental Destruction
1st March 2018 FROM DAILY NEWS REPORTER IN GEITA GEITA Resident Magistrate’s Court on Monday remanded four workers of the…
Tanzania: JPM Does Us Proud On Tanzanite
Brown Jonas 28th February 2018 AFTER the works to build a concrete wall measuring 24.5km around the Mirerani mining quarries–the…
Tanzania Mining Law to Lock Out Foreign Banks
17th February 2018 By Beatrice Materu In Summary – Mining Regulations on Local Content (2018), which came into effect in…
Kenya: UK Company to Survey Sh161 Billion Kakamega Gold
By Victor Juma 19th February 2018 In Summary – The announcement is a signal that the multinational could soon join…
Mining firms sue Kenya over permits
By James Kariuki 7th February 2018 IN SUMMARY – The government said Cortec’s 21-year licence was unprocedurally issued and was…
Africa: Mining Legislation in Africa Gone Back to Colonial Days
PRESS RELEASE 5th February 2018 Mining in Africa has reverted to the pre-independence days of colonialism in which legal regimes…
New Evidence of Africa’s Systematic Looting, From an Increasingly Schizophrenic World Bank
Patrick Bond A brand new World Bank report, The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018, offers evidence of how much poorer…
