Report: DRC Mining Deals Highlight Resource Corruption

Join us May 23 at 6:30 pm for a live discussion between editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail, John Stackhouse, and former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan. The two will be discussing sectarian division around the world and how ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo lost at least $725m (£612.2m) in potential revenues between 2010 and 2012 as a result of miner ENRC undervaluing state assets, a panel led by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan has alleged. Five mining deals, ...

A meeting with 33 ministers and the plenary WSIS+10 Visioning session with Kofi Annan at the WSIS Forum 2013 were a prominent opportunity for Janis Karklins, UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for , to promote the results of the UNESCO hosted ...

A point frequently returned to throughout the World Economic Forum on Africa has been the inescapability of the fact that Africas economy will be shaped by its reserves of natural resources for the foreseeable future. Introducing the 2013 Africa ...

NGOs have repeatedly highlighted the issue of individual grabs of lands and of rents. But do NGOs extol our rights to a fair share of Earth and of her worth? These two 2013 excerpts are from the BBC on May 10 and 13, the latter by J. Head. Kofi ...

Tshepo Tsheole, Cape Town chairperson Kofi Annan says the launch of the Africa Progress Report 2013 is about talk on aspirations and opportunities for Africa, about the continent's potential wealth, the moral and economic imperative to share the ...

Sunday 0 0 0 0 MARKAR ESAYAN m.esayan@todayszaman.com Former UN Special Envoy for Syria Kofi Annan said right before his resignation from this post, The Syrian crisis is not like Libya; the war in Syria will have a spillover effect. Annan made this ...

ENRC's brokers Deutsche Bank (Xetra: 514000 - news) and Morgan Stanley (Xetra: 885836 - news) have walked away from the crisis-hit miner, adding to the turmoil around the group now under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). The exit of ...

Uganda should open its secret agreements with foreign oil firms up for public scrutiny and carefully re-evaluate whether building a refinery at home to process crude oil is economically viable, a senior development specialist has said.The government ...