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1.	Africa’s natural resources could dramatically improve the lives of millions
	Author: African Progress Panel	Date Written: 10 May 2013
	Primary Category: Resource Extraction	Document Origin: African Progress Panel
	Secondary Category: Economic Justice	Source URL: http://www.africaprogresspanel.org
	Key Words: Resources, benefits, services, Graca Machel,government policies,
	Summary & Comment: while natural resources may have fuelled a decade of rapid economic growth, most Africans have still not seen the benefits, report says. In many African countries, natural resource revenues are widening the gap between rich and poor. Although much has been achieved, a decade of highly impressive growth has not brought comparable improvements in hea . . . [expand]
2.	A brutal tragedy that should never have happened
	Author: Brian Ashley	Date Written: 20 August 2012
	Primary Category: Resource Extraction	Document Origin: Amandla magazine
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.amandlapublishers.co.za
	Key Words: South Africa, mineworkers massacre, police, Lonmin, NUM
	Summary & Comment: Here Amandla magazine comments on reasons for the Lonmin massacre as failure of political, management and union leadership. Amandla maintains that union leadership has been given sweet deals by the company - Lonmin- and so failed to defend its workers. This also allowed a rival mining union to start up and divide the workers. Amandla recommends the . . . [expand]
3.	Mines still have a long way to go to negate their harmful effects on communities
	Author: Benchmarks	Date Written: 14 August 2012
	Primary Category: Resource Extraction	Document Origin: Benchmarks
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.bench-marks.org.za/
	Key Words: South Africa, platinum, Lonmin, massacre, communities
	Summary & Comment: Media Statement by Benchmarks Foundation. This study follows on their original study in 2007, of the Platinum mining companies in Northwest Province. These include Lonmin mine, where only a few days after this issuing of detailoed reports, the massacre of some 34 miners by police took place. The study shows that the detailed recommendations to Par . . . [expand]
4.	Botswana: Debswana and the curse that is diamond discovery in the Boteti area
	Author: Zowa Development Trust	Date Written: 1 August 2012
	Primary Category: Resource Extraction	Document Origin: Peoples’ Issues
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http:// http://indigenouspeoplesissues.com
	Key Words: Botswana, Boteti, diamonds, villagers, economic justice, sustainability
	Summary & Comment: Debswana is jointly owned by DeBeers and the Botswana government. The latter thus has divided loyalties. The ZDT speaks on behalf of the people of Boteti area, where there are 4 huge diamond mines, who wish to persuade Debswana not to take any of their issues for granted and to enter into dialogue with them, as they are making sustained and deliber . . . [expand]
5.	Journalist arrested for investigating Canadian mining firm
	Author: Ghanaweb.com	Date Written: 17 July 2012
	Primary Category: Resource Extraction	Document Origin: Justice Lee Adoboe
	Secondary Category: Media	Source URL: http:// http://www.ghanaweb.com/
	Key Words: Ghana, mining, police.
	Summary & Comment: The Criminals Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Monday arrested and detained a Ghanaian journalist Pascal Kudiabor at the instance of a Canadian-Ghanaian mining firm ,Emmaland Cardero Mining Company Limited. The constitution does not allow anybody to compel a journalist to disclose the source of a published news item. JK
6.	African civil society calls on governments to promote mining investments
	Author: socialwatch.org	Date Written: 14 July 2012
	Primary Category: Resource Extraction	Document Origin: socialwatch.org
	Secondary Category: AU/NEPAD	Source URL: http://www.socialwatch.org
	Key Words: African Mining Vision, Yao Graham, local services, local control
	Summary & Comment: 50 activists and experts participated early July in the Pan-African Civil Society Networks Meeting on the African mining vision AMV, which was created and signed in 2009 by government leaders. One goal is to strengthen governance mechanisms to enhance the contribution of the mining sector to national development, remarked Dr Yao Graham, coordinator . . . [expand]
7.	Understanding conflict minerals provisions
	Author: Enough Project	Date Written: 30 June 2012
	Primary Category: Resource Extraction	Document Origin: enough
	Secondary Category: Economic Justice	Source URL: http://www.enoughproject.org/
	Key Words: Eastern Congo, Minerals Provisions, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform, DRC
	Summary & Comment: The recent passage of provisions on conflict minerals from eastern Congo in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform act has brought unprecedented attention to the linkages between trade in minerals crucial to electronics and other industries and the ongoing conflict in DRC. This article contains some of the frequently asked questions about the topic. M.M . . . [expand]