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  • Angola: Cabinet Council Approves Fourth Phase of Luanda Electricity Network

    Luanda — The Government approved Wednesday in Luanda the draft contract for the fourth phase of the project of rehabilitation and expansion of the capital's electricity network.

    This was during a session of the Cabinet Council that also authori...

  • Mozambican Mining Sector Affected by the Global Financial Crisis

    o Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) are most affected

    o The major projects will not be much affected
    (Maputo) According to the newspaper notícias of April 27, 2009, adverse factors, especially the international financial crisis, are affec...

  • Zimbabwe: Motsepe Mulls U.S.$300 Million Local Mining Investment

    Motsepe PatriceAFRICAN Rainbow Minerals (ARM), a mining concern owned by South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe, has registered a...

  • Congo-Kinshasa: The Enough Project?s Comprehensive Approach to Conflict Minerals

    Washington, DC — Electronics companies must ensure they are not using minerals which finance the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the deadliest conflict in over 50 years, says the Enough Project...

  • $5 Billion Swazi ‘Fraud’ Mystery Deepens

    The mystery is deepening over an alleged 5 billion US dollar (E50 million)

    Zimbabwe: Mining Company to Invest U.S.$300 Million

    Harare — SOUTHERN African-focused mining firm African Rainbow Minerals, says it is prepared to spend as much as US$300 million to develop mines in Zimbabwe.

    The company recently merged with the world's second larg...

  • Australian firm opens uranium mine in Malawi

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    Revenge for Sinohydro

    sinohydroChina's Sinohydro is to build the new dam at Zongo even though it lost out las...
  • Huge Congo land deal for South Africa's Farmers

    10 millions d'hectares de terres cultivables donnés à des fermiers sud-africains au Congo?

    South African farmers have been offered 10 million hectares of farm land on which to grow maize and soya beans and on which to set up poult...
  • De l' uranium sur 300 km...

    Le prix de l'uranium avait été multiplié par dix en quatre ans. Entre janvier 2003 et avril 2007, le prix du kilogramme d'oxyde d'uranium (U3O8 yellow cake) est passé ...
  • Countries funded to plan forest protection

    Five developing countries have received US$18 million in funding to plan how to implement a proposed scheme to reward countries that protect forests and reduce deforest...

  • De l' uranium à Lubum!

    L' uranophane de Lwiswishi

    Illegal Fishing A Source Of Resource Flight From Tanzania

    illegal fishing in TanzaniaEnglish

    Zambia: 'Proposed Zesco Tariffs Hike Threat to Lumwana'

    LUMWANA Mining Company has said that Zesco's proposal to raise tariffs by 66 per cent could force its multi-million dollar mine in Solwezi out of business if applied to its operation.
  • Botswana: Firestone Recovers High-Grade Diamonds Near Orapa

    Diamond exploration and mining company, Firestone Diamonds, said Monday it expects annual revenues of up to $30 million after it recovered high grade and high value diamonds from its BK11 kimberlite near Orapa.

    The company said selective mining ...

  • South Africa: BRC Diamondcore in Dispute With Its Local BEE Partner

    Johannesburg — DIAMOND explorer BRC DiamondCore, which has halted all its trial operations in SA and retrenched 200 employees, has failed to secure a court order against its former black empowerment partners, Sefalana Mineral Resources, it said yeste...

  • Zambia: 1,400 Jobs at Risk as Mufulira Mine Closes April 14

    MOPANI Copper Mines (MCM) will permanently close Mufulira mine and lay off 1,400 employees by April 14, Mineworkers Union of Zambia (MUZ) presidentRayford Mbulu has disclose; And MUZ has threatened to hold demonstrations if MCM does not rescind its dec...

  • Namibia: Reliance on Mining Not Good for Local Economy

    Windhoek — Tarah Shaanika, CEO of the Namibia Chambers of Commerce and Industry (NCCI), says Namibia needs to reduce its reliance on the mining sector Shaanika was addressing students from the University of Namibia's UNAM Economic Society (UNECONS) o...

  • Zimbabwe: Global Diamond Body Orders Ban On Chiadzwa Diamonds

    The world's diamond certification body on Friday ordered a ban on the trade of diamonds from eastern Zimbabwe, over concerns of human rights violations at the Chiadzwa diamond fields in Marange.

    The President of the World Federation of Diamond Bo...

  • Botswana: Gem Diamonds Freezes CKGR Project

    Gem Diamonds has put its Gope project in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) on the backburner, as the London-headquartered diamond producer seeks to cut its costs and stay afloat in the face of the global economic crisis.

    The company also ...

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