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Strange Platinum Rumblings in Zimbabwe
Mining and Politics in Zimbabwe
Foreign Mining companies are under pressure to stop investing in Zimbabwe under the current regime of President Mugabe. The new round of sanctions against Zanu-PF by Western governments will include asking mining companies to stop their activities in Zimbabwe. Mining giant Anglo-American is increasingly under pressure to abandon its $400 million platinum investment in Zimbabwe.

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SPECIALE TABLE RONDE: Les responsabilités des Entreprises Minières dans le Développement Social et Communautaire du Katanga
A l’initiative du Gouvernement Provincial du Katanga et sous le haut patronage de Son Excellence Monsieur le Gouverneur de la Province, le Ministère Provincial des Mines et Affaires Foncières en partenariat avec la Fédération des Entreprises du Congo (FEC), l’Observatoire des Ressources Naturelles en Afrique Australe (SARW) et African Institute of Corporate Citizenship (AICC) a organisé au Musée National de Lubumbashi
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Natural Resource Extraction and Human Rights-Based Abuses in Africa

Africa is extremely rich in natural resources. For hundreds of years, there was trade in gold between modern-day Ghana and North Africa, and even further afield. Africa’s wealth, including humans and nature, attracted the attention of a globally expanding Europe, which intruded into the continent to enslave people for the sake of sugar and cotton plantations in the

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Kimberley Process Certification Scheme: Compliance and limitations in Southern Africa
The proponents of the KPCS argue that it has played a key role in ending wars in the region. Since the KPCS was introduced in 2003, the level of illicit diamonds entering the international market is said
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The Search for Responses to Resource Curse
Africa is rich in natural resources, and efforts are increasingly being made to ensure that these resources play a positive role in the development and growth of Africa. As mineral resources and oil are finite and therefore not sustainable
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Chinese Billions in the DRC

What is the nature of the Chinese contract? What possible impact would it have on the Congolese? Biyoya gives a sober  analysis of the contract.

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