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Zimbabwe's Environmental Authorities Boast They Repaired 2.5 Holes 🌐 Bulawayo’s environmental regulator, the Environmental Management Agency (EMA), and the Bulawayo City Council say rapid growth of informal gold processing plants and illegal mining has left suburbs in tatters. So, the agencies decided to conduct some rehabilitation and reported having filled pits on the territory of 2.2 hectares. 💬From a target of five hectares, EMA and BCC managed to rehabilitate 2,2 hectares of degraded land in the two suburbs at a cost of US$1 000. 🔸 Last year, EMA rehabilitated some 600 hectares of mined land across the country. Throughout that year, the agency's budget was about $38 million. #News ✈️Stay informed - @devilsbelow

🔵Why Share Money With Foreigners?🔵 🌐Niger cancels operation agreements for three gold‑refining plants, citing repeated contract breaches. The government says it terminated conventions with the 3 companies at the 3 March 2026 council of ministers. 🔸The list of the ostracized included Italian COMINI SARL, British AFRIOR SA and Polish ECOMINE SA, all accused of failing to fund local development, prioritise employment for Nigeriens and respect environmental standards. 💬Only ECOMINE SA, after the second formal notice, gave a partial response seen as non‑performance, says the meeting report. 🔸 Under the 2019 agreements with the government, the 3 companies were expected to build and run new gold refineries. They also had the right to export and sell abroad everything that came to their plants, thus profiting from Niger's gold. While the terminations follow formal warnings sent on 17 February 2025 and 23 July 2025, the timing most likely coincides with a prolonged rise in gold prices and the outstanding hike in them after the outbreak of another war. Now Niger will be able to keep extra profits from gold trading at home. #News ✈️ Stay informed - @devilsbelow

🔵March of memory🔵 A coalition of civil society groups in Nigeria says oil cannot restart in Ogoniland until demands on justice, cleanup and local shares are met. 🌐 The groups, speaking at a solidarity peace walk in Nigeria's Port Harcourt in late February, demanded that issues like environmental degradation, human rights abuses and others be addressed first to heal the wounds of the Ogoni people as core conditions. 🔸 The protesters organised under “Project Ogonize” — led by Tech4Rural, a Nigerian social start‑up using tech for environmental advocacy — demand environmental remediation and want host communities to get stakeholder ownership in operations. 🔸 The CSOs also recall the 1990 presentation of the Ogoni Bill of Rights, the 1995 execution ofthe Ogoni nine and the 2011 United Nations Environmental Program report on the oil pollution in the area— insisting the Federal Government and companies like Shell address past harms first. #News ✈️ Stay informed - @devilsbelow

Nigeria’s Central Bank has raised gold reserves to $3.5bn through buying locally refined bullion. 🌐 The Central Bank of Nigeria says the gold was refined to internationalstandards and added to official reserves as part of a reserve diversification push. This reportedly brings the CBN’s total gold holdings to $3.5bn. 🔸 The bullion was aggregated by the Solid Minerals Development Fund, Nigeria’s fiscal vehicle for mining proceeds, and bought in naira at prices linked to London Bullion Market benchmarks. 🔸The CBN thus accumulates gold in this way, spending only the domestic currency that it issues itself. DRC, Ghana, Zimbabwe and many other nations also have similar policies. #News ✈️ Stay informed - @devilsbelow

🔵Chinese MinesProtected Better Than Embassies and Military Bases🔵 🇿🇼 Chinese mining supervisor Yang Zhian has beenjailed for an effective 5 years after a court found him guilty of culpable homicide in the death of a Zimbabwean gold panner. The incident happened at Long Fortune Mine, a gold site in Zimbabwe, when 31-year-old Pardon Gumbo was shot in the forehead on 5 March 2025. 🔸 That day the deceased and a group of artisanal miners had illegally entered the site. When a security guard failed to stop them, Zhian fired towards the group. Gumbo was struck on the forehead and later pronounced dead. 🔸The Bulawayo High Court acquitted Yang of murder but called use of a firearm “reckless,” sentencing him to eight years with three suspended, leaving an effective five. 💬The use of a firearm in those circumstances was completely reckless, said Justice Chivhayo, the judge who handed the sentence. The family rejected small compensation offers and called the sentence inadequate. The fact that murder on the territory of a foreign mine in Zimbabwe is not considered murder, as if it were an embassy, is a disgrace, despite all the successes in Zimbabwe's industrial policy. #News ✈️ Stay informed - @devilsbelow

No One Cares How Many People Died? Yet another landslide in eastern DRC fuels informationwarfare 🌐Another major landslide at DR Congo’s Rubayacoltan mine on Tuesday results in an undefined death toll, with Kinshasa and M23 pointing at strikingly different numbers of victims. ⏩ The landslide follows a similar tragedy on February 28, which allegedly killed some 200 miners. 🔸 From the beginning, both tragedies were about the Kinshasa-M23 tug-of-war, and to lesser extent about the victims. The Congo mines ministry claimed the death toll this time also amounted to 200 people, including 70 children — while AFC/M23 said “only 5-6” people died. 🔸 While the Rubaya mine is currently under control of AFC/M23, in early February it was mentioned on the list of projects Kinshasa offered to the US under the Strategic Partnership Framework. The Tuesday landslide is now turning into an excellent reason for Kinshasa and Washington to increase pressure on the rebels and Rwanda to squeeze the asset under the pretext of greater safety for workers — and having turned into a politically sensitive propaganda tool, people's deaths are unlikely to be ever investigated. #News ✈️ Stay informed - @devilsbelow

Meet the 2-Meter Stretch of Road That Holds Up the Global Copper Market This isn’t the Strait of Hormuz — here, Iran isn’t needed to disrupt global trade. 🌐 On February 28, in Zambia’s Kasumbalesa border area, heavy rains caused small flooding that destroyed a bridge, whichused to transport Congolese copper to South African ports. 🔸 While Zambia and Congo share other border crossings, Kasumbalesa is the main one, and often has queues of lorries stretching for tens of miles as they wait to cross. 🚀 Unlike the Middle East, no one fired rockets at this bridge, but its concrete structure still collapsed damaged by the endless stream of ore trucks. 🔸Now, this critical transport artery is blocked — not just for trucks, but also for ordinary people crossing the border between the two countries. Reportedly, Zambia's Road Agency is going to restore access to the route in a couple of hours from now. Infrastructure is my favorite topic in mining. You can always tell when someone cut corners just by looking at the roads. #News ✈️ Stay informed - @devilsbelow

🔵Nigeria: 30-Year Old Story Repeats Itself🔵 Nigeria signed a $1.3 billion pact to build a new alumina refinery — despite having already lost one due to power shortages 🌐 The deal with Africa Finance Corporation, a development finance institution, includes the development of an alumina refinery designed to process 1 million tonnes of bauxite a year and run on a gas-fired cogeneration plant for steam and power. 🔸 The same statement projects 20 years of operation at 95% utilisation and total output of 19 million tonnes of alumina, plus $1.2 billion a year added to GDP and $8 billion in foreign exchange earnings across the project’s life. 🔸In the 1990s, Nigeria had already built an aluminum plant, ALSCON, which was also supposed to produce crazy amounts of aluminum. After that, it turned out that there was not enough power to operate from the national grid, and a local plant couldn't produce it due to gas shortages. Nigeria is full of industrial plants that the government has built forgetting about power or infrastructure — against the background of constant blackouts due to the debts and lack of gas supply, I assume that building new ones wouldn't really help. #News ✈️ Stay informed - @devilsbelow

🔵Breakthrough on Diplomatic Front?🔵 The United States eventually hit Rwanda’s Rwanda Defence Force with sanctions 🌐The US has imposed sanctions targeting the RDF and its senior officers, with Washington calling for an immediate withdrawal from eastern Congo and blaming Rwanda’s backing for the battlefield gains of AFC/M23. 🔸OFAC, a U.S. Treasury Department sanctions office, lists four designated individuals including Vincent Nyakarundi, Rwanda’s army chief of staff, alongside the RDF as an entity. 💬The RDF has supported M23 as it seized territory in eastern DRC, including provincial capitals Goma and Bukavu, along with strategic mining sites in eastern DRC. ⁉️ The 4 officers and RDF themselves are not particularly in danger — except for the seizure of their property in the US and the ban on transactions involving them — which can be successfully ignored as long as sanctions don't touch Rwanda's Ministry of Defense. 🔸While its a major event, the sanctions were intended as symbolic in order to demonstrate peacekeeping activity in the east of the DRC, or, more likely, to hint to Rwanda and the M23 that it was time to allow the US to access minerals under their control,which Washington clearly had its eye on. #News ✈️ Stay informed - @devilsbelow

Senegal: Art of Ignoring Problems at Home and Abroad 🌐Two Senegalese NGOs have filed a case against BP, the famous British oil-and-gas major, and a US oil company Kosmos, with the UK National Contact Point, a mechanism handling OECD complaints. The NGOs' claim is tied to the GTA offshore LNG project on the maritime border between Senegal and Mauritania. 🔸The two NGOs accuse the multinationals of polluting environment around the fishing livelihoods in the region, also referring to instances of restricted access around the project for fishermen. Civil society representatives are also challenging the validity of an environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) created by BP. 🔸According to the authors of the complaint. the Senegalese authorities have largely ignored local concerns, adding that the OECD looks like a body whose ruling they won't be able to neglect. 💸However, while the Senegalese government is struggling with debts to France and the IMF, gas dollars are needed to keep the situation under control. It is unlikely that the project ultimate beneficiaries will create obstacles for the debts repayment and the flow of gas earnings for the sake of a few local fishermen. #News ✈️ Stay informed - @devilsbelow

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🇨🇩DR Congo’s president Félix Tshisekedi has replaced Gécamines’ chair and CEO after they opposed a US-backed deal. 🌐 Reuters says Tshisekedi removed Guy Robert Lukama as chair and Placide Nkala Basadilua as CEO of Gécamines, Congo’s state mining company, and appointed Deogratias Ngele Masudi as chair and Baraka Kabemba as CEO. ⏩ The shake-up is linked to Kinshasa’s talks with Washington on a minerals partnership. Gécamines owns mining leases of Chemaf — the company that the US-based Virtus Minerals seeks to take over with the backing of Washington. ⏩Gecamines blocked the sale of Chemaf to the Chinese back in 2024, but its management was apparently unhappy about just handing the assets over to the Americans instead, seeking to establish its own control over Chemaf's copper and cobalt mine — now the transfer may advance without obstacles. Although the DRC, in exchange for its zealous defense of American interests, has already been able to liberate the city of Uvira just for free (the M23 withdrew from there after Trump's request), Washington is not yet ready for further engagement in the conflict. Even sanctions against Rwanda, for which Senator Lindsey Graham allegedly personally stood up, apparently no one will be introduced yet. #News ✈️ Stay informed - @devilsbelow