Sudan will now allow private traders to export gold, in an effort to curb smuggling and attract foreign currency into the country’s cash-strapped treasury. Prior to…
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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s state-owned copper and cobalt miner, Gecamines is challenging a ruling by a local court that it owes an Israeli billionaire, Dan…
Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed is shaking up several sectors in a liberalisation drive aimed at transforming Ethiopia
An army officer who requested anonymity spoke of “around 30 deaths,” basing the figure on witness accounts
The Tanzania Mining Commission set a deadline of September 15 to enforce the directive
New mines range from gold, zinc, rare earth, uranium, nickel and rutile to manganese,
Africa’s second-biggest economy bounced back from its largest quarterly drop in a decade when it contracted 3.1 per cent in Q1
The regulatory change seeks to bring a “substantial increase” in the contribution of the mining sector
The deal is expected to benefit more than 100,000 former mineworkers, who caught the lung disease, or their dependents
The nature of the ecological disaster discovered onsite justifies the immediate, unconditional halt to these activities