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Tuareg, Mali and a post-Gadaffi Sahel: rising risks to oil exploration and...
On 15 October 2011, around 400 Tuaregs who fought for Colonel Gaddafi in Libya returned to Mali’s northeastern region of Kidal. These tribesmen included mercenaries recruited during the 2011 insurgency...
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Ghana’s Mining Sector: increase in taxes spark opposition from sector – By...
Ghanaian Finance Minister Kwabena Duffuor gets fiscally tough on the mining industrySonghai Advisory LLP is a bespoke business intelligence consultancy providing critical insight on market...
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Zimbabwe: Rethinking investor risk – by Jolyon Ford at Oxford Analytica.
There is a limit to what one can read into visual impressions made during the Mining Indaba in Cape Town earlier this month. For one thing, the paucity of Chinese mining, banking or government...
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Resource Nationalism in Africa: what it means for governments, companies and...
Today is The Times’ much-anticipated CEO Summit Africa with one of the more intriguing panels focusing on resource nationalism: opportunity or threat? Both the Indonesian government’s recent efforts to...
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Guinea: The Mining Sector and Its Discontents – Risk or Reward? – Kissy...
Alpha Conde - President of GuineaThe arrival in town last week of a delegation of investors who met with Guinean president Alpha Conde is an indication that there is still appetite to invest in the...
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Mining in the Republic of Congo: waiting for profits – By Madeline R. Young
President Denis Sassou Nguesso has presided over expansion of the mining sector since stabilisation of the security enviroment has facilitated an increase in foreign investment in Rep. of Congo.The...
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Time to improve state participation in Africa’s extractive industries – By...
Populist Julius Malema has been central to business fears over calls for extractive industry nationalisation in South Africa.The rise in commodities prices over the past decade (referred to by some...
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Why is Botswana rethinking its deal with De Beers?
Christened ‘Debswana’, its 50-year-old mining pact with De Beers is showing signs of strain – for some rather unexpected reasons. “Like shaking a giant.” Mokgweetsi E.K. Masisi, President of the...
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Botswana has always driven a hard bargain with De Beers
Botswana is not following a trend of African state negotiating more aggressively with corporations. It has long set this trend. This article is a response to “Why is Botswana rethinking its deal with...
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A mine in the middle of paradise
The Tebboune government is brutally suppressing any protest against a lead-and-zinc mine being built in a RAMSAR protected area. The Soummam Valley. Photo credit: Zil — Travail personnel, CC BY-SA 3.0,...
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