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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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 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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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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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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