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1.	Minerals not saving all in southern Africa
	Author: Munyaradzi Makoni	Date Written: 5 February 2010
	Primary Category: Resource Extraction	Document Origin: AfricaFiles
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.africafiles.org
	Key Words: Minerals, human rights, mining, Indaba
	Summary & Comment: Local communities feel more needs to be done by international mining companies to improve their welfare and are now exploring every opportunity to make sure they are heard and action is taken. M. Makoni
2.	Canadian mining companies, behaving badly
	Author: Janet Bagnall	Date Written: 5 February 2010
	Primary Category: Resource Extraction	Document Origin: The Gazette
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL:
	Key Words: mining, corporate responsibility, practices,
	Summary & Comment: In Africa, South America, Mexico, Asia, and Australia nearly two in every three mining projects - more than 3,000 - are run by Canadian corporations. Their practices put commerical gain first and corporate responsibility at a distance. DN
3.	D R Congo: First Quantum, partners launch arbitration over Kolwezi contract
	Author: Mining Weekly, Toronto	Date Written: 1 February 2010
	Primary Category: Resource Extraction	Document Origin: Mining Weekly
	Secondary Category: Central Region	Source URL: http://www.miningweekly.com
	Key Words: DRC, mining, First Quantum, arbitration, Kolwezi, contract,
	Summary & Comment: First Quantum received a letter from Gécamines, the mining company of the Democratic Republic of Congo on January 11 advising that the Kolwezi contract of association was being cancelled. First Quantum, the International Finance Corporation, and South Africa’s Industrial Development Corporation want to protect their investments in the Kolwezi taili . . . [expand]
4.	How the UN and member states must do more to end resource-fuelled conflict
	Author: Global Witness: London	Date Written: 27 January 2010
	Primary Category: Resource Extraction	Document Origin: Global Witness Press Release
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.globalwitness.org
	Key Words: West Africa, resources, conflicts, United Nations, failures, actions
	Summary & Comment: This is a press release and the executive summary of a new report, Lessons UNlearned, by Global Witness that details failings by the United Nations and other member states to deal with natural resource-fueled conflicts. It proposes a series of recommendations that focus on sanctions to disrupt the trade that fuels armed violence - demilitarizing co . . . [expand]
5.	D R Congo: Benefit of AngloGold Ashanti mine project questioned
	Author: various	Date Written: 25 January 2010
	Primary Category: Resource Extraction	Document Origin: CAFOD UK
	Secondary Category: Central Region	Source URL: http://www.cafod.org.uk
	Key Words: DRC, RDC, mining, AngloGold Ashanti, communities,
	Summary & Comment: English follows. Un nouveau rapport « Opportunité en or ou faux espoirs ? » préparé conjointement par CAFOD, agence britannique de développement, la Bench Marks Foundation, observateur sud-africain de la responsabilité civile d’entreprise, et le Cadre de Concertation, organisation congolaise de la société civile, révèle les impacts environnementaux . . . [expand]
6.	Tanzania: Minister calls for Bill C-300 adoption
	Author: Lee Berthiaume	Date Written: 20 January 2010
	Primary Category: Resource Extraction	Document Origin: Embassy magazine
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL:
	Key Words: Tanzania, minister, Bill C-300, adoption
	Summary & Comment: Tanzania’s foreign minister comes out in support of Canadian bill C-300, and calls on CIDA to re-focus on Africa. Notice how much pressure foreign mining companies are exerting on the government of Tanzania around Canadian mining law reforms. DN
7.	Niger uranium feeds French nuclear power
	Author: Khadija Sharife	Date Written: 14 January 2010
	Primary Category: Resource Extraction	Document Origin: The Thinker, Volume 11 via Pambazuka News
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
	Key Words: Niger, uranium, nuclear power, Areva, uranium, Françafrique,
	Summary & Comment: Niger exports the uranium that generates 80 per cent of France's electricity supply; however, ordinary Nigeriens reap little benefit of France’s control of Niger's uranium resources. There are reports of radioactive contamination of the water, air and soil by multinational mining operations. DN