DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO DRC DIKULUSHI COPPER SILVER MINE MIGA ETHICS ASSESSMENT
February 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), of the World Bank, is to review its compliance procedures regarding the social impact of projects it supports, following a critical report from the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) of the World Bank group about a Congo mine. He accused MIGA of failing to ensure its security could not endanger local citizens. The inquiry probed assistance provided by Canada's Anvil Mining in 2004 to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) army when retaking from rebels a town used to ship copper and silver ...
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