🌐Weekly News Digest [ January 12 – January 18 ]
That was a week full of DRCongo's attempts to indulge its American partners.
💡Here are the key highlights:
🇧🇯 Benin
— Singapore-based company will launch oil production at a 56-year old oil field
🇨🇩 DR Congo
— DRC to Send 100,000 Tonnes of Copper to the US
— DRC is preparing to send the US a list of mineral projects for American investors to take over
— State company Gécamines proposes a deal to obtain a mining company, whose sale it has been blocking
🇬🇭 Ghana
— Ghana is considering ending contracts that allow companies to keep legacy royalty and tax rates
🇲🇱 Mozambique
— The Migration Service detained 5 Chinese and other foreign nationals for informal gold mining and unlawful stay
🇳🇬 Nigeria
— Former Warlord Buys American Drones to Hunt for Oil Thieves in Nigeria
🇸🇩 Sudan
— 10 Killed in a Collapse of Five Gold Mines in South Kordofan
🇿🇲 Zambia
— Two Zambian workers died on January 13 at Mopani Copper Mines’ shaft in Kitwe
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
— Harare creates a monopoly on rehabilitation of rivers polluted by gold mining
— The government is taking back a gold mine from a local football club
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