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BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency director general Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei has visited Nigeria and Ghana to see how his UN agency has been installing radiotherapy units in local hospitals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WEST African coastal communities are being forced to eat bushmeat because European Union (EU) subsidised commercial fishing is making local fish too expensive for local families. The European Commission has struck a series of fishing deals with countries such as Ghana and the Ivory Coast, where EU trawlers take fish for financial compensation to local governments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WANT to sell cigarettes? Go east, young man. That might be the advice that tobacco companies could glean from the latest set of World Health Organisation (WHO) smoking figures. Using 2003 or latest available data, the WHO has collated percentage rate proportions of smoking adults (18 and over), compared with total populations of all but 56 countries: the overwhelming majority of nations.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WHEN a local pizza parlour goes bust, or the site of a planned hotel complex is suddenly left abandoned or interest rates suddenly shoot up for no apparent reason, we don’t normally blame money launderers. Perhaps we should though.…

BY RICHARD HURST
The Ivory Coast used to be a model of stability in west Africa, but the outbreak of civil war has done little to improve the country’s status in terms of money laundering, said an assessment by the US State Department.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL Fund for the Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is giving US$26 million to west Africa’s Burkina Faso to boost its fight against HIV/AIDS and malaria; the money will be distributed by the United Nations Development Programme.…

BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African mining company AngloGold has stated that if it wins the bidding war for Ashanti Goldfields in Ghana it would immediately invest US$190 million to fund the capital requirements of the mine in the Obuasi region. Jonathan Best, AngloGold chief financial officer, highlighted the difference between AngloGold’s recapitalisation plans with that of London Stock Exchange listed Randgold of US$170 million over the next 30 years, (included in a total package of US$1 billion over 51 years).…

BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African mining company AngloGold recently announced that it was seeking to divest from some of its Australian gold fields to continue other diversification efforts outside South Africa. AngloGold Australia ‘s general manager, Barrie Parker, said that the company’s current properties in the central Australian Tanami Desert, particularly the Coyote deposit, had been earmarked for sale in to raise money for AngloGold’s recent explorations in Ghana, Mongolia, Canada and South America.…

BY RICHARD HURST
CANADA’S PMI Ventures has announced that drilling has begun on its Ashanti II deep gold project, in Ghana, West Africa. The initial target being tested is in the Grid B area of the Fromenda concession. The programme consists of 1,050 metres of diamond drilling in eight to ten holes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The UN Environment Programme says that within five years most African countries will be close to phasing out leaded petrol. Egypt, Libya, Mauritius and Sudan – are already lead-free, to be joined this year by Morocco, Reunion and Tunisia.…