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MIGA INVESTMENT GUARANTEES NON-FERROUS METAL SECTOR - WORLD BANK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, is the international organisation companies turn to when they want to invest in a jurisdiction where their assets might not be that safe. Non-ferrous metal miners and processors use MIGA to cover risks that are too tough for the private insurance industry.…
SOUTHERN EASTERN AFRICA REGIONAL ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING BODY FEATURE - ESAAMLG
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg
THE FORTEEN countries of the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) have their AML/CFT work cut out. Under-funded, lacking resources, short of political will and working in a region that leaks money like a sieve…it is a demanding context for the group’s daunting tasks.…
MIGA INVESTMENT GUARANTEES OIL AND GAS SECTOR WORLD BANK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, is the international organisation companies turn to when they want to invest in a jurisdiction where their assets might not be that safe. Oil and gas companies have long used MIGA to cover risks that are too tasty for the private insurance industry, and at December 2005, MIGA had supported 13 oil and gas projects, with guarantees totalling US$707 million, with a standard leverage of five-to-one, so investments covered are actually five times larger.…
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO DRC DIKULUSHI COPPER SILVER MINE MIGA ETHICS ASSESSMENT
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.…
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO DRC DIKULUSHI COPPER SILVER MINE MIGA ETHICS ASSESSMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COMPLIANCE Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) of the World Bank group has accused the international organisation’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of failing to ensure a Congo mining project’s security could not endanger local citizens. The ombudsman ruled in an investigation into assistance provided by Canada’s Anvil Mining in 2004 to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) army’s retaking from rebels a town used to ship copper and silver from its Dikulushi mine, in the southern DRC.…
CONGO EIB MAGNESIUM PROCESSING LOAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Canada’s MagIndustries Corp Euro 13 million to help develop a potash plant, a magnesium smelter and rehabilitate hydro-electric power station units serving carnallite (magnesium ore) and salt deposits, at Kouilou, Pointe Noire, Congo (Brazzaville).…
EIB CONGO POINTE NOIRE MAGNESIUM SMELTER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Canada’s MagIndustries Corp Euro 13 million to help develop a potash plant, a magnesium smelter and rehabilitate hydro-electric power station units serving carnallite (magnesium ore) and salt deposits, at Kouilou, Pointe Noire, Congo (Brazzaville).…
WTO PATIENT COSTS POVERTY REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) is warning that around 100 million people fall into poverty every year because of medical care payments they cannot afford. It adds that an additional 150 million people spend nearly half their incomes on medical expenses.…
WTO PATIENT COSTS POVERTY REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) is warning that around 100 million people fall into poverty every year because of medical care payments they cannot afford. It adds that an additional 150 million people spend nearly half their incomes on medical expenses.…
WTO PATIENT COSTS POVERTY REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) is warning that around 100 million people fall into poverty every year because of medical care payments they cannot afford. It adds that an additional 150 million people spend nearly half their incomes on medical expenses.…