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MIGA INVESTMENT GUARANTEES MINING 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. Mining companies have long used MIGA to cover risks that are too tasty for the private insurance industry, and the agency has issued 58 guarantees for the sector since it was formed in 1988.…
FOOD DYES WARNING - EFSA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority has named food dyes used illegally in spice-producing countries, which could be genotoxic and/or carcinogenic: Acid Red 73; Sudan Red 7B; Metanil Yellow; Auramine; Congo Red; Butter Yellow; Solvent Red I; Naphthol Yellow; Malachite Green; Leucomalachite Green; Ponceau 3R; Ponceau MX; and Oil Orange SS.…
CONGO PLAGUE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has reported an outbreak of pneumonic plague at a “very unsanitary (diamond) mine” in Zobia, Ituri district, in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Since late December, said the WHO, 61 diamond miners had died from the disease, which infects humans from the air they breathe.…
CONGO PLAGUE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has reported the deaths of 61 diamond miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from pneumonic plague, which ravaged Middle Ages Europe as ‘the Black Death’. Today 98.7% of the three types of plague cases are found in Africa: worldwide, in 2003, nine countries reported 2,118 cases and 182 deaths, also in the ex-USSR, the Americas and Asia.…
MIGA INVESTMENT GUARANTEES MINING 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. Mining companies have long used MIGA to cover risks that are too tasty for the private insurance industry, and the agency has issued 58 guarantees for the sector since it was formed in 1988.…
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.…
URANIUM MINE - DRC
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COBALT and uranium mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is too dangerous for workers and should remain closed, a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) assessment has concluded. UN officials have examined Shinkolobwe mine since a June collapse killing eight miners.…
URANIUM MINE - DRC
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A URANIUM and cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is too dangerous for workers and should remain closed, a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) assessment has concluded. UN officials have examined Shinkolobwe mine since a June collapse killing eight miners.…
ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT could be the most underestimated commercial crime in the world, the illegal trade in wildlife and their products. Some estimates put its value at US$5 billion-a-year, but governments do not really seem to care. Keith Nuthall reports.…