August 07
Africa: Pivotal Shift At Seabed Authority - Nations Rally for Deep-Sea Mining Moratorium
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) Assembly meeting concluded last week with no mining authorized, an unprecedented number of States calling for a moratorium or precautionary… Read more »
September 25, 2023
Africa: African Coups and Resource Rights
When the heads of state of all United Nations members spoke in front of the UN General Assembly last week, a number of African leaders were not able to attend, having been removed… Read more »
September 20, 2023
Africa: Dangerous Scramble for Renewable Energy Resources
The growing and changing material requirements for new technologies have triggered natural resource scrambles for strategic minerals, generating dangerous rivalries fought out in… Read more »
September 13, 2023
Africa: Enhancing Mining Revenue
The commodity boom early this century was mainly driven by mineral prices. Yet, mining's contribution to developing countries' revenue has been modest, largely due to massive tax… Read more »
August 09, 2023
Africa: Mining Revenues Undermined
The primary commodity price boom early this century has often been attributed to a commodity 'super-cycle', i.e., a price upsurge greater than what might be expected in 'normal'… Read more »
March 24, 2023
South Africa: Artisanal Miners Face Onerous Obstacles to Become Legal
Greed, poverty, irresponsible legal mining giants which exploited and then abandoned South Africa's mines, together with the government's failure to enforce regulations on the… Read more »
January 23, 2023
South Africa: We Want to Be Legal - We're Not 'Zama Zama' Criminals, Say Artisanal Miners
Mining towns across South Africa have become hostage to a booming but bloody illegal mining economy. Read more »
November 22, 2022
Africa: Open Veins of Africa Bleeding Heavily
The ongoing plunder of Africa's natural resources drained by capital flight is holding it back yet again. More African nations face protracted recessions amid mounting debt… Read more »
October 29, 2022
Zimbabwe: Artisanal Miners Ruin Diminishing Forests
With homemade tents scattered about, hordes of artisanal gold miners throng parts of Mazowe village in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland Central Province, where they have cut down thousands… Read more »
August 05, 2014
Africa: Activists Urge Obama to Act On Extractive Industries Law
As the three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit got underway here Monday, anti-corruption activists urged President Barack Obama to prod a key U.S. agency to issue long-awaited… Read more »
July 12, 2004
Congo-Brazzaville: Country Cut From 'Clean' Diamond List
An international diamond "policing" scheme has stricken the Republic of Congo from its list of countries certified as following global trading rules, and accused the… Read more »