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Minerals not saving all in southern Africa
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Author: Munyaradzi Makoni
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Date Written: 5 February 2010
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Primary Category:
Resource Extraction
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Document Origin: AfricaFiles
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Secondary Category:
-none-
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Source URL:
http://www.africafiles.org
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Key Words: Minerals, human rights, mining, Indaba
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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
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Canadian mining companies, behaving badly
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Author: Janet Bagnall
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Date Written: 5 February 2010
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Primary Category:
Resource Extraction
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Document Origin: The Gazette
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Secondary Category:
-none-
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Source URL:
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Key Words: mining, corporate responsibility, practices,
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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
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D R Congo: First Quantum, partners launch arbitration over Kolwezi contract
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Author: Mining Weekly, Toronto
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Date Written: 1 February 2010
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Primary Category:
Resource Extraction
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Document Origin: Mining Weekly
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Secondary Category:
Central Region
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Source URL:
http://www.miningweekly.com
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Key Words: DRC, mining, First Quantum, arbitration, Kolwezi, contract,
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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 . . .
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How the UN and member states must do more to end resource-fuelled conflict
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Author: Global Witness: London
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Date Written: 27 January 2010
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Primary Category:
Resource Extraction
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Document Origin: Global Witness Press Release
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Secondary Category:
-none-
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Source URL:
http://www.globalwitness.org
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Key Words: West Africa, resources, conflicts, United Nations, failures, actions
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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 . . .
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D R Congo: Benefit of AngloGold Ashanti mine project questioned
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Author: various
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Date Written: 25 January 2010
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Primary Category:
Resource Extraction
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Document Origin: CAFOD UK
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Secondary Category:
Central Region
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Source URL:
http://www.cafod.org.uk
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Key Words: DRC, RDC, mining, AngloGold Ashanti, communities,
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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 . . .
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Tanzania: Minister calls for Bill C-300 adoption
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Author: Lee Berthiaume
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Date Written: 20 January 2010
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Primary Category:
Resource Extraction
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Document Origin: Embassy magazine
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Secondary Category:
Eastern Region
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Source URL:
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Key Words: Tanzania, minister, Bill C-300, adoption
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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
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Niger uranium feeds French nuclear power
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Author: Khadija Sharife
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Date Written: 14 January 2010
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Primary Category:
Resource Extraction
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Document Origin: The Thinker, Volume 11 via Pambazuka News
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Secondary Category:
Western Region
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Source URL:
http://www.pambazuka.org
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Key Words: Niger, uranium, nuclear power, Areva, uranium, Françafrique,
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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
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