Africa: Revealed - Trump-Linked Firms Cash in On Mineral Lobbying Deals As U.S. Cuts Aid

Pakistan, Somalia and Haiti are among 11 countries that have signed lobbying deals with Trump-linked figures, with many bartering key resources including minerals in exchange for… Read more »

Africa: It's Only Fair That Polluters Pay for Climate Change Costs

With the costs of climate change impacts rapidly rising, the billions pocketed by the fossil fuel industry is an insult to the communities worst hit by extreme weather. It's time… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »