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Sudan’s gold rush – state-inspired?

Johnny West on May 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

The army medical orderly tells me he has seen men die in front of him, crushed by wells that collapsed in the middle of Sudan’s desert. And in the next breath he tells me if I have any money to invest, he’ll join me to dig for gold in Kordofan: “All we need are a more »

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An open letter to the Mozambican government

Johnny West on May 22, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

Following is an open letter to Esperanca Bias, Mozambique’s Minister of Resources, on the occasion of Mozambique’s accession to the EITI mechanism. It is jointly signed by OpenOil and the Center for Pubic Integrity, a research institute and NGO based in Maputo. Dear Minister Bias, This year, 2013, is of unprecedented importance in ensuring good more »

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Oil and corruption in Uganda: the foreign donors’ plight

Amrit Naresh on May 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

If this had been the UN, we might have sent a strongly worded statement to the Norwegians. They were absent from a forum in the heart of Africa on the corrupting effects of oil, an affliction for which Norway, more than any other nation, seemingly knows the cure. It wasn’t the UN – it was more »

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