The Killing fields of Korba
This article, by Nostromo Research, first appeared on the Mines and Communities (MAC) website on 6 August 2014. It’s not often that MAC can offer a true “exclusive” – something no-one else has yet published and which addresses one of the worst...
Power companies must stop buying 'blood coal' from Colombia
Dutch NGO PAX is calling on five Dutch and European power companies to stop buying Colombian ‘blood coal’ from the mining companies Drummond (a private US company) and Prodeco (owned by London-listed Glencore Xstrata). These mining companies must first contribute to...
New reports and resources from LMN member groups and our friends
‘Glencore’s ruthless cost-cutting harms communities in the Congo’, say NGOs A new in-depth study about Glencore’s Congolese mines – ‘PR or Progress? Glencore’s Corporate Responsibility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ’ – published by Rights and...
New RAID report – Och-Ziff, Mugabe's "Bagmen" and the underpricing of African assets
In its new report Och-Ziff, Mugabe’s “Bagmen” and the underpricing of African assets, RAID (Rights and Accountability in Development) calls on the US authorities to investigate a number of questionable transactions in Africa by Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC...