🌐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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🙈 After the ban on accepting organic waste, Bali authorities faced an unexpected consequence: residents began massively burning trash right in their own yards
ℹ️ The decision to restrict organic waste intake was made to accelerate the transition to village-level waste processing systems. Now the island’s largest landfill only accepts non-organic and residual waste. The reason is critical overload: up to 65% of Bali’s waste is organic with high moisture content, leading to methane emissions, unpleasant odors, and rapid overfilling of the site.
🔥 However, in practice, the ban has triggered a wave of uncontrolled waste burning. Lacking sufficient recycling infrastructure, local residents have resorted to the simplest method of disposal – fire.
#rules@BaliNews
🌱 Bali’s main landfill stopped taking organic waste (April 2026) and will fully close by August
👮♀️ Police are monitoring the site, but short-term issues like illegal dumping and river pollution may increase during the transition.
🚮 Tourists: you might notice more trash in some areas – travel responsibly.
#rules@BaliNews
🪧Bali installs signs with rules of behavior on the island
📰 The Department of Tourism of Bali province is concerned about the number of violations of the rules of behavior on the island by tourists. Now it is intensifying the installation of information signs with infographics explaining the rules of behavior on the island – Do's and Don'ts.
📍 The plan is to install these signs at 10 key locations in Kuta, Changgu, Seminyak, Uluwatu, Tanah Lote and Bedugul where the chance of reading the rules will be high.
🤞 This is expected to reduce the number of violations so often committed by foreign tourists.
What Do's should be followed first of all?
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#tourism#rules
👮♂️Governor to take firm and tough action against foreign tourists who behave badly while in Bali
📰 The statements come after an American national was arrested and deported after going on a rampage in a hospital on the island under the influence of drugs.
🇺🇸 The 27-year-old US citizen, known by his initials MM, tested positive for drugs, though was deported from Indonesia without criminal prosecution as ‘no evidence’ was found to charge him with drug possession.
❌ He has been added to the blacklist and will be denied entry to Indonesia in the future.
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#rules#goodnews