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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ZERO Emissions Research Initiative – helping Africa sustainably exploit local biological resources – is examining using ganoderma mushrooms as medicines, possibly for HIV/AIDS. It is also considering exports of Termitomyces titanicus, the world’s largest edible umbrella mushroom and the Congo basin’s edible goliath frog.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has boasted that 100 countries have now signed its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, although only nine countries have yet to ratify the treaty. Of these, the world’s major developed economies are conspicuously absent, the line up including Fiji, India, Malta, Mongolia, New Zealand, Norway, Palau, Seychelles and Sri Lanka.…

BY MARK WILSON
AWASH with recently-passed legislation and newly-established Financial Investigation Units, the small nations of the Caribbean have transformed their money laundering controls since the mid-1990s. In 2000, five Caribbean island jurisdictions made up one-third of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of fifteen non-cooperative countries and territories, each of them with ‘serious systemic problems,’ in the words of a FATF review published on June 22 of that year.…

BY RICHARD HURST
THE HUNDRED-year-old Kilomoto gold mine in the north east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is to resume its gold production this month. Cosma Balongelwa, managing director of the mine, said that it had recommissioned equipment in January and that its management were expecting to produce three to four kilogrammes of gold in the next two weeks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for legal penalties to be erected banning the sale, trade and consumption of bushmeat, which it says is causing a “worrying depletion of wildlife in (tropical) forests.” Approving a report by Irish socialist MEP Proinsias De Rossa, MEPs said a European Union (EU) “strategic action plan” should be created to fight to problem, most common in the Congo basin, where between 1 and 5 million tonnes of bushmeat is produced.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court (ICC) is a step closer to launching its first case, with Uganda President Yoweri Museveni referring the terror wrought by his county’s rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALL but one of the commonly used forms of asbestos have been added to a United Nations blacklist, enabling countries to block further imports without being challenged in global tribunals such as the World Trade Organisation. Amosite, actinolite, anthophyllite and tremolite were added to the Rotterdam Convention Prior Informed Consent (PIC) list by an intergovernmental negotiating committee, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY European Parliament (EP) committee has called for a significant boost in European Investment Fund spending on actions that suppress the growing illegal trade in bushmeat, which is threatening wild species in Africa, Asia and Latin America.…

BY RICHARD HURST
THE US$5 million second phase of the Dikulushi copper-silver mine, in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is to start soon, by the second week in November, according to Bill Turner, managing director of Australia’s Anvil Mining. He said that the new phase would extend the life span of the mine by another five years allowing the mine to produce 42 million pounds of copper and 1.8 million ounces of silver.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MASSACRES in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) civil war and the murky business dealings that have fuelled the conflict are to be the first focus of the International Criminal Court (ICC), its chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has said.…