Alternative Mining Indaba 2013 Civil society representatives gathered in a parallel event to South African’s Mining Indaba in Cape Town in early February. The official gathering styles itself as the “world’s largest mining investment...
Zambian subsidiaries of Vedanta Resources Plc and Glencore International Plc are among companies that should pay higher dividends to minority shareholder ZCCM Investment Holdings Plc, the state-controlled investor said. ZCCM, 88 percent-owned by the Zambian...
In Zambia, unemployment hovers at about 80%, and 60% of the population lives on less than a dollar a day. Seven thousand kilometres north, you’ll find a wealthy Swiss hamlet called Rüschlikon, where a powerful South African-born commodity trader lives, close to the...
A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court has sought the response of the BJP and the Congress parties on a petition by a non-government organisation working for electoral reforms seeking a probe by a special investigation team or the Central Bureau of Investigation...
In February, for the first time since 2011, there have been new attempts to evict farmers from their land in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa, India, in order to build the South Korean company POSCO’s giant steel project. Although violence flared up on 3rd...
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has begun its evaluation of the environmental impact study for the Loma Miranda expansion project planned by London-listed multinational resource group Xstrata’s Falcondo nickel division in the Dominican Republic....
