Ghana, Africa’s second-largest gold mining state, has set up a committee to review stability investment agreements with mining houses. Mining companies that have had stability agreements in Ghana include London-listed AngloGold Ashanti, the world’s third...
There has been a predictably indignant reaction to the news that Indian ministers wanted to stop British aid to the country and only allowed it to continue after the Department for International Development begged them. But if Conservative MPs and media commentators...
Author: John Prescott in Guardian (UK); Catholic Overseas Development Agency (CAFOD) First test of UK’s commitment to UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights will be whether it amends Legal Aid bill, says CAFOD See...
As World Bank projects fail to reduce corruption in the mining sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), International Finance Corporation (IFC) investments in extractive industries are provoking complaints and protests around the world. See...
Billionaire financier Nat Rothschild exposed his friend Peter Mandelson to accusations of a conflict of interest while the Labour peer was an EU trade commissioner, the High Court has ruled. The Swiss-based hedge-fund manager had launched a libel battle against the...
The two companies are some of the biggest borrowers of syndicated loans globally and bankers say the combined entity would need to do something to restructure banks’ exposure. See ...
