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September 02nd, 2014
Gety est une localité du territoire d’Irumu, en District de l’Ituri, située à environ 60 km au sud-ouest de Bunia ; c’est le Chef-lieu de la chefferie des Walendu bindi dont la presse parle abonda |
 August 08th, 2014
Global and regional mechanisms for natural resource governance such as Publish What you Pay (PWYP), Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the Kimberley Certification Process (KCP), the U.S. Congress’ Frank-Dodd Act, and the African Mining Vision (AMV) have evolved against the backdrop of ideas and practices undergirding the resource curse. |
 August 06th, 2014
35 persons, mainly trade unionists, CSO activists and journalists from Southern Africa took part in the two day constituency building workshop organised in Johannesburg, 2-3 May 2014 by Third World Network-Africa and OSISA/SARW. |
 June 19th, 2014
History teaches us that Britain was the world’s largest empire and pre-eminent superpower during the 19th century. During this period, Britain built thriving global companies that cemented its economic dominance by exploiting the resources of its colonies and other countries. |
 February 26th, 2014
There are two economic realities on the African continent today. |
 October 30th, 2013
Contains the most compelling arguments why the KP must adapt or lose its relevance. |
 October 29th, 2013
Barometer is a set of clear principles for measuring transparency, accountability and equity in the exploitation of the region’s vast natural resources |
 August 29th, 2013
The Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) organised a major consultative conference in Kinshasa on 2-3 May, 2013 to discuss the impact of key peace agreements and the trade in conflict minerals in |
 April 16th, 2013
Gold miners in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) no longer fear homicidal warlords and militias but they are still being ruthlessly exploited – by a plague of corrupt government of |
 October 04th, 2012
On 21st May 2012, the first regional conference for southern and East Africa on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was held in Cape Town. |
August 14th, 2012
People’s Republic of China (PRC) has prioritised Africa as a strategic partner at both the political and economic levels, while seeking to link African commodity and consumer markets to China’s growing economy |
April 25th, 2012
The Tenke Fungurume Mining (TFM) company controls a 1,600 square kilometre mining concession in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). |
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January 27th, 2012
Mozambique has attracted two of the world’s largest mining companies – Brazil’s Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale) and the Anglo-Australian multinational Rio Tinto – to extract coal from the huge fi |
 July 04th, 2011
The director of (Southern African Resources Watch) SARW indicated that he is happy to be in Lesotho, especially because it is the first time that his organisation has had a chance to implement a pr |
 July 04th, 2011
Southern Africa Resource watch and the Centre for Policy Studies organized a conference on the nationalization of mines which was attended by all political parties with the exception of the rulin |
 September 29th, 2010
Since the discovery of copper deposits in Zambia during the 1930s, copper has spelled both doom and boom for the country’s social, political and economic activities. |
August 24th, 2010
For the past three years SARW has been working with four communities, two in Zambia and two in the Democratic Republic of Congo, using this toolkit. |
August 24th, 2010
Africa is a poor continent, rich in resources. |
 July 31st, 2009
Through out the history of copper mining in Zambia, the mining companies have been the major source of revenue to the government. |
 June 30th, 2009
It is projected that if the economy does not improve within the next two years, more than half a million mineworkers in the region will lose their jobs. |
 June 17th, 2009
The proponents of the KPCS argue that it has played a key role in ending wars in the region. |
 May 29th, 2009
The Forestry Department in Malawi, which is responsible for all forestry matters, was established in 1942. |
 March 11th, 2009
This report has been compiled by a group of African and international civil society organisations concerned about the lack of transparency in mining contracts, as well as the revenue that national |
February 09th, 2009
Le rapport sur l’exploitation du coltan en RDC montre les zones d’exploitation de ce minerai et son commerce, pratiquement dans une ambiance de conflits armés. |
 February 09th, 2009
L’exploitation pétrolière en République Démocratique du Congo n’est concentrée à ce jour qu’ à Moanda dans la Province du Bas-Congo, en attendant la mise en valeur des autres gisements en Ituri et |
June 17th, 2008
In October 2006, the Zimbabwean press broke news of a diamond finding in the remote district of Marange, in the eastern province of Manicaland.1 This immediately precipitated a scramble for the pre |
June 17th, 2008
Malawi is not known historically to be well endowed with mineral wealth. |
 June 17th, 2008
These guidelines provide a framework, which the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) government can use to ensure that the revision of contracts is fair, just and transparent. |
 June 17th, 2008
Zambia was the first country on the African continent to produce copper and its economy has historically been heavily dependent on the mining of copper and cobalt. Once a middle-income country, Zambia began to slide into poverty in the 1970s when copper prices declined on the world market. |
