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Ghana now Africa’s largest gold producer, but reforms await

Oct 11, 2019

But beating South Africa, where mining is plagued by industrial militancy and the deepest mines in the world, was always likely to happen sooner or later. Academics at the University of the…

Turning stones into bread: Gulu miners eke a good living from quarrying

Oct 11, 2019

It is midday at the Laroo stone quarry about 5Km from Gulu town. Hundreds of locals robotically pound away at rocks using small hammers. The huge rocks have to be manually broken into smaller pieces…

Guns in mines: A disturbing trend of Uganda’s Minerals Protection Unit

Oct 10, 2019

In 2017, under a directive of Uganda’s President Museveni, the Police Minerals Protection Unit (PMPU) was established. At the time, the Unit was created to respond to a growing concern that the…

Rwanda signs Mining Agreement with Zimbabwe

Sep 03, 2019

Rwanda has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Zimbabwe that will see the two countries cooperating and exchanging experiences from the extractive industries to develop their respective…

Kenya crude oil capacity economically unviable for refinery

Aug 05, 2019

Deposits discovered in Kenya are insufficient to justify construction of a refinery, a senior petroleum ministry official said on Tuesday. Kenya discovered commercial oil in 2012 in its Lokichar…

Unleashing ASM potential

Aug 05, 2019

Despite being central to Uganda’s mining industry, Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) in Uganda has for years been neglected by authorities. Until recently, the ASM sub-sector was not even duly…