September 16, 2020
Africa: Defending the Environment in the Time of Covid-19 - Increasing Threats, Clampdowns On Freedoms and Tragic Losses
Protecting the environment has become even more dangerous during the COVID-19 pandemic. Land and environmental defenders across the globe already face killings, threats, harassment… Read more »
August 06, 2020
Africa: How to Tackle the Illegal Timber Trade? New Rules On Implementing China's Forest Law Could Hold the Key
As consumer and industry demand increases, China's timber imports have grown rapidly in recent years. The country now relies on imports for over half of its timber. But many of the… Read more »
July 07, 2020
Congo-Kinshasa: Global Witness Pledges to Bring Greater Transparency to DRC's Mining Sector
Last week we published an investigation reporting that the controversial mining magnate, Dan Gertler has seemingly used a suspected international money laundering network… Read more »
March 01, 2017
Africa: Guinea's Bribery Saga Reaches New Peaks
Lurid bribery revelations led the government of Guinea to confiscate world-beating iron ore reserves from junior mining company BSG Resources in 2014. So when bitter rival Rio… Read more »
April 09, 2014
Guinea: Govt Moves to Strip Billionaire of Iron Ore Concession
A government committee in Guinea today recommended stripping diamond billionaire Beny Steinmetz of one of the world's biggest iron ore concessions on evidence his company bribed… Read more »
December 17, 2013
Guinea: Global Witness to Resist Attempt to Stifle Public-Interest Reporting
Officials of the companies Beny Steinmetz Group Resources and Onyx Financial Advisers have filed a claim in the UK High Court against Global Witness under the Data Protection Act.… Read more »
August 15, 2013
Guinea: New Evidence Ties BSGR to Company Behind Guinea Mine Bribery
A director of Beny Steinmetz Group Resources set up a company that signed corrupt deals with the wife of an African president in a multi-billion-dollar mine scandal, Global Witness… Read more »
April 19, 2013
Guinea: Proof Company Was Lying in Mining Scandal?
Beny Steinmetz Group Resources says there was no corrupt behaviour in its acquisition of licences to one of the world's largest iron ore concessions, in the West African nation of… Read more »
April 16, 2013
Guinea: Corruption Arrest in U.S. Puts Beny Steinmetz Group Resources in the Frame
The US authorities have arrested a man in Florida in connection with the controversial acquisition of mining rights in Guinea by Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR), according to… Read more »
November 09, 2012
Guinea: Beny Steinmetz Group Resources Must Publicly Address Questions Over Mining Concession
The Financial Times has published serious corruption allegations relating to the confiscation of half of one of the world's biggest iron ore concessions and its granting to a… Read more »
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