12 December 2024, 9:20am EST Source: MiningWatch Canada – Alliance for Human Rights of Ecuador Quito/Ottawa. Today 108 human rights…
Canada: Open letter | When will Quebec’s mining laws respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples?
12 December 2024, 9:00am EST Québec Indigenous Rights Rodrigue Turgeon National Program Co-Lead This open letter was originally published in…
Zambia: Community of Kabwe still not seeing Anglo American’s “responsibility to the people and environment it operates in”
Dec 11, 2024 | News “We demand that Anglo American properly address the environmental devastation they’ve left behind. If this is not…
Ethiopia: Nation’s Gold Mining to Supercharge Economic Dev’t – Premier
-Hawassa corridor project’s impact on infrastructure transformation 11 December 2024 The Ethiopian Herald (Addis Ababa) Ethiopia is making significant strides in…
LMN’s Engagement with the Adivasi Resistance to Mining and Militarisation in India
Dec 10, 2024 | News 30 organisations and networks including LMN have signed a solidarity statement condemning the escalating state violence on the…
Nigeria: Senate passes bill to establish university of mining
The bill’s provisions repeal the Nigerian Institute of Mining and Geo-Science Act, 2018. by Abdulqudus Ogundapo December 10, 2024 The…
Nigeria: Sacre Bleu! Questions On the Nigeria/French MOU On Mining Activities
10 December 2024 Daily Trust (Abuja) By Ilyasu Gadu One of the highlights of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent official…
Nigeria: France-Nigeria Mining Pact
9 December 2024 This Day (Lagos) The pact is both an opportunity and a risk, argues ABIODUN J. OLUWADARE The…
Niger Military Junta Seizes Control of French Uranium Operations
5 December 2024 Radio France Internationale French nuclear group Orano has announced that authorities in Niger have taken “operational control”…
Africa: Deep Seabed Mining – Bad for Biodiversity and Terrible for the Economy
4 December 2024 The Conversation Africa (Johannesburg) analysis By Elizabeth Steyn The debate around deep seabed mining has been gaining…