🌐Weekly News Digest on West & Central Africa’s Mineral Industries [ October 27 – November 3 ]
The week was rich in ministerial rearrangements and efforts to rein in major mining companies.
💡Here are the key highlights:
🏦Afreximbank
- Afreximbank's New Chair Announced Support For Domestic Mineral Processing
🇦🇴Angola
- Angola Plans to Give Shell Exclusive Rights
🇨🇩DR Congo
- The DRC Arranged For $660M of Guarantees From UK Export Finance
🇬🇭Ghana
- Ghana to Decentralize Gold Licensing
- Ghana to Launch Comprehensive Review of Major Miners
🇱🇷 Liberia
- Liberia's President Replaced Mines Minister to Attract American Investments
🇲🇱Mali
- World Bank's Arbitration Court Refused to Fast-Track Barrick vs Mali
🇳🇦Namibia
- Namibian President Dismissed the Minister of Mines and Assumed the Post Herself
🇳🇪Niger
- Niger Forced China's Oil Giant to Hire More Locals
🇳🇬Nigeria
- Nigeria Tries Again to Revitalize Its Aliminium Smelter
- Nigeria Imposed Additinal 15% Tax on Fuel Imports
🇹🇿 Tanzania
- Post-election Unrest Disrupted Shipments Through Dar es Salaam Port
#NewsDigest
Devils Below
She's a mother, a daughter,
She's brave, courageous,
Is She's feeble ? Helpless ?
No! It's you, your frame of mind,
Still let's her freedom to rescind!
She's not disabled,
Just the scenario made her existence confined,
Even in the century of 21st,
She's still defenseless over the set of your mind!
She never got the freedom, which a boy gets at his age,
So could you please let me know,
How She's guilty at every stage ?
Either She's LAXMI to NIRBHAYA and PRIYANAKA in 2019,
Nothing has changed,
Every single day, every single minute, nd in every single second,
She's molested, burnt and raped!
This act is plaintive enough,
We can't even think of,
Only a question I wanted to ask,
When she'll get rid of!
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-Gurpreet Bhatia
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