The only manual well in the village of Kabundji and its surroundings, serving about 10,000 inhabitants. Photo: Jonas Kiriko

Communities in the DRC are left out of the mining transition negotiations

Affected residents told Jonas Kiriko that while they are excluded from the negotiations, outsiders are now in charge of the talks with the company. August 5, 2024.  12:12 pm The first health institution under construction in the village of Kabundji, built by the state with mining royalties. Photo: Jonas Kiriko Subsidiaries of Canadian mining company…

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Regulatory challenge: Artisanal miners at work in Geita. Photo courtesy National Environmental Management Commission

The dangers in the transition to clean energy in Tanzania

The dangers in the transition to clean energy in Tanzania Most of the new mining projects are still at exploration and development stage, but mining policy analysts have already warned of the dangers ahead, Oscar Nkala investigates… July 15, 2024.    7:50 a.m. Regulatory challenge: Artisanal miners at work in Geita. Photo courtesy National Environmental…

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Photo shows different vapes/Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi for The Colonist Report/2024.

Vapes: Lack of laws puts African kids, the environment at risks

With no proper disposal plans in place in Nigeria and Burkina Faso, disposable vapes are recklessly dumped in public places alongside other waste products, sometimes ending up in rivers. Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi, Elza Sandrine Sawadogo, Kevin Woke May 28, 2024.  6:00a.m. Photo shows different vapes/Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi for The Colonist Report/2024. Vapes, popular in the UK and…

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Photo shows residents washing clothes in community river/Photo credit:RAID and Afrewatch

Report links cobalt mining in the DRC to women’s reproductive health issues, children’s illnesses

April 8, 2024.   6:14am The rates of skin pathologies and genital infections among female and paediatric patients have skyrocketed, the investigation found… Photo shows residents washing clothes in community river/Photo credit:RAID Children who live in close proximity to cobalt mining communities in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are being negatively impacted by the…

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Burkina Faso’s botched policy increases plastic waste, kills livestock, forces importers to use sunlight to detect biodegradable plastic.

Despite the ban on non-biodegradable plastic importation and manufacture, the government has granted 918 import exemption certificates since 2015 By Issouf Tapsoba February 22, 2024.   9:00am Photo shows a reserved area transformed into a garbage dump. It illustrates the magnitude of the production of plastic waste from the population/Issouf Tapsoba, on January 20, 2024, for…

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Despite EU’s £92 Million Aid, DRC IDPs say help is scarce​

In October 2023, the EU announced it had spent €92 million for internally displaced persons in DR Congo, but IDPs said they hardly received support. By Anicet Kimonyo January 29, 2024.    11:55 am Kanyaruchinya camp/Anicet Kimonyo on January 17, 2024 In 2023, the European Union declared that it had provided humanitarian funding totaling “nearly…

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Indian battery recycling company that cuts Malians air

“Yes, of course, I am aware of the pollution. This is a recycling plant,” says Kumar Jagdish, company unit director. By Dave Dembele January 25, 2024.   12:03pm Pallet of scrap lead-acid batteries/Wikimedia Common/ November 26, 2011 In Sanankoroba, a town outside of Bamako on Route Nationale 7 (RN7) that leads to Sikasso in Mali, which…

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