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ILLEGAL URANIUM MINING CONTINUES IN THE DRC CLAIM RESEARCHERS
BY WACHIRA KIGOTHO
RESEARCHERS studying mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are warning illegal uranium mining continues in a country still riven with political violence and weak government authority.
Indeed, militia groups and government soldiers continue to benefit from illegal uranium mining in the eastern DRC, claims Ms Nyambura Githaiga, a researcher with the Nairobi-based African Conflict Prevention Programme.…
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA PUSHES FORWARD WITH ATC IMPROVEMENTS
BY BILL CORCORAN, WACHIRA KIGOTHO, PAUL COCHRANE; and KEITH NUTHALL
SUB-SAHARAN Africa has always been regarded as a problem zone for air traffic control, with weak states struggling to provide the sophisticated and flexible communications required for state of the art ATC.…
EU NETWORK REPORTS SEIZURES OF SKIN WHITENERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) consumer protection information network RAPEX has reported a string of market withdrawals of potentially harmful skin whitening products in the Netherlands and Austria. The actions were taken largely because of excess hydroquinone content, breaching the EU’s cosmetics directive.…
INTERNATIONAL CONFECTIONERY NEWS ROUND-UP - EU FIGHTS SUGAR SHORTAGES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HIGH sugar prices and tight supplies are a constant worry for confectionery manufacturers this year, and the European Union (EU) has been trying to keep these problems under control. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has estimated that global prices rose 81.4% from last July (2010) to this January (2011) and the EU has taken action.…
PORTUGUESE CONSUMER PROTECTION SERVICE BUSY WITH COSMETICS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CONSUMER protection authorities of Portugal have been busy with unsafe cosmetics products in September, with five withdrawals reported by European Union consumer safety network RAPEX. Some covered Spanish made products – such as Isdruc ‘Crema despigmentante’ skin lightening cream; plus Tempting ‘Vitamine vital shampoo’ and ‘Live Mask repair’.…
OECD MONITORING SYSTEM TO PREVENT ARMED GROUPS BENEFITING FROM GREAT LAKES' MINERALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRESSURE is being applied to non-ferrous metal mining companies to follow an Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) code of practice that prevents them fuelling armed conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa.
Its countries have been witness to come of the worst human rights abuses and violence of the last 50 years: the genocide in Rwanda and the bloody civil war of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).…
US-CANADA COMPANY ISSUES SHARES TO EXPLORE CONGO, NAMIBIA FIELDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HOUSTON, Texas, and Vancouver, British Columbia-based oil and gas company EnerGulf Resources is selling 10 million shares to raise Canadian dollar CAD4 million (USD3.89 million). This will finance hydrocarbon exploration of the onshore Lotshi Block (western Democratic Republic of Congo), the offshore ‘Block 1711’ (Namibia) and working capital.…
ISO DEVELOPS NATURAL GAS VEHICLE FUELLING STATION STANDARD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardization (ISO) is developing standards for natural gas fuelling stations to help promote vehicles using this alternative fuel. A new committee ISO/PC 252 will coordinate the work, developing two standards: on fuelling stations for compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG).…
Can a common history syllabus be developed for Africa?
By Keith Nuthall, International News Services
Historians are working with Unesco and educationalists to try to develop a common African history syllabus, including the teaching approach and pedagogical materials. The ambitious project will initially focus on helping primary and secondary schools and, this coming year, an assessment will consider how universities in Africa could benefit. But can history really be taught on a continent-wide basis?
Both projects draw on the eight volume Unesco-coordinated General History of Africa written from 1964 to 1999 which tried to create a standard for the continent written from an African rather than a colonial European perspective.
An evaluation study on using this general history in higher education throughout the continent will be written this year.…
WORLD BANK AND UK TO BOOST TRANSPARENCY IN CONGO METAL MINE ADMINISTRATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank is granting US dollars USD50 million grant to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to improve the efficiency and transparency by which this country’s government handles mineral exploitation concessions and contracts. The money will be combined with an additional USD42 million from the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID).…