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President John Magufuli Orders Audit On Tanzania’s Mineral Wealth

President John Magufuli Orders Audit On Tanzania’s Mineral Wealth

PRESIDENT John Magufuli has directed the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) to conduct an in depth audit of the mining sector to plug out loopholes that occasion massive losses from the country’s rich mineral reserves. Dr Magufuli issued the directives when receiving the CAG’s report for the financial year ended June 30, 2016 at the […]

Sierra Leone ‘Divine Diamond’ Offered for Sale

Sierra Leone ‘Divine Diamond’ Offered for Sale

One of the world’s largest diamond discovered in Sierra Leone has been put up for sale, the government announced. The 709 carat uncut diamond found by an evangelic pastor earlier this month, is being sold by international tender, a public notice on Saturday indicates. The Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources pegged the fee for […]

Zimbabwean Women Using Deadly Mine Waste As Sexual Stimulant

Zimbabwean Women Using Deadly Mine Waste As Sexual Stimulant

A MINING rights lobby NGO says Hwange Colliery is exposing local women to serious health risks by dumping toxic acid whose chaff they (women) are applying to their bodies to arouse sexual pleasure. The Centre for Natural Resources Governance (CNRG) said this in a report launched in Harare, Thursday. The report is on the environmental […]

Nigerian to Criminalise Export of Unprocessed Minerals

Nigerian to Criminalise Export of Unprocessed Minerals

The Federal Government said on Friday it would soon make it an offence for anyone to export unprocessed minerals out of the country. The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi, said in Lagos on Thursday at a Town Hall meeting with interest groups in the mining sector that government was taking the decision […]

Nigerian Mogul Aliko Dangote Opens Coal Mine in Tanzania

Nigerian Mogul Aliko Dangote Opens Coal Mine in Tanzania

Aliko Dangote is now a coal miner as Tanzania has offered his Dangote Cement Company in the southeastern town of Mtwara, land to mine coal for its operations. Tanzania’s Ministry of Energy and Minerals at the weekend handed a 10-square-kilometre plot of land to the $500 million cement factory set up in 2015 by Aliko […]

Illegal exploitation of Western Sahara resources: MEPs voice concern

Illegal exploitation of Western Sahara resources: MEPs voice concern

The illegal exploitation of natural resources in western Sahara after the European Union Court of Justice (EUCJ) ruled on the matter has sparked concerns among the members of the EU Parliament (MEPs). The MEPs called on the European Commission to publish the “consultative guidelines” for the attention of companies about the legal risks of disregarding […]

Liberia Court Grants Amendment in Sable Mining Case

Liberia Court Grants Amendment in Sable Mining Case

Judge Yamie Gbeisay of Criminal Court “C” has granted the state a request to amend the two indictments against Cllr. Varney Sherman, Sherman and Sherman Inc, E.C.B. Jones, Christopher Onanuga, Alex Tyler and Sable Mining. Bettie K. Johnson Mbayo, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The […]

Mozambique Nets 1,634 Foreign Illegal Miners

Mozambique Nets 1,634 Foreign Illegal Miners

Mozambican authorities have arrested 3,220 people suspected of involvement in illegal mining in Cabo Delgado Province, local media said. According to DW Radio, 1,634 of those arrested were foreign nationals. DW Radio quoted the Cabo Delgado Province police boss, Mr Abdul Chaguro, saying “1,561 were Tanzanian nationals. The other 73 people were from Gambia, Senegal, […]

Donald Trump Is Right On Congo’s Minerals, but for All the Wrong Reasons

Donald Trump Is Right On Congo’s Minerals, but for All the Wrong Reasons

A few weeks ago a British newspaper leaked the draft of an executive order proposing the suspension of a US law that imposes tight controls over the trade in Congolese gold, tin, coltan and tungsten. Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act requires US companies to carry out due diligence to ensure their products […]

Zimbabwe Chiadzwa Atrocities – Security Opens Up

Zimbabwe Chiadzwa Atrocities – Security Opens Up

This week the Zimbabwe Independent — which in December last year began publishing fresh stories based on our ground-breaking investigation into the Marange alluvial diamonds discovery and subsequent looting — made a breakthrough by interviewing various security officers who were involved in gross human rights violations. Owing to the sensitive nature of the issue, it […]

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