The Kaiser plan, masterminded by ten experts who hopscotched the country for six weeks, foresees harnessing the power of the crocodile-infested Volta River to work aluminum plants. First step is to build a 230-ft.-high dam near Kosombo (see map), 60 miles
Finnwatchin tutkija Päivi Pöyhönen tarjoaa boikotin tilalle tuotantoketjun läpinäkyvyyden lisäämistä. ... "Käytännössä kaikki suuret elektroniikkayhtiöt ovat jossain vaiheessa rahoittaneet Itä-Kongon konfliktia käyttämällä tuotteissaan paikallisia konfli
"Information for the youth : Silenced to Deliver is the second part of MakeITFair’s reports in three series. The first part dealt with raw material for mobile phones, laptop computers and the consumer electronics and how they are assembled, and the third
February 1, 2013 "A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger. Reported by Associated Press on Christmas Day, this was missing from most Anglo-American media."
William F. Engdahl. " Mali for the Pentagon is but the next building block in the militarization of all of Africa by AFRICOM using proxy forces like France to do the dirty work. "
"The biggest Brazilian investor in Africa - and one of the biggest investors in the continent from anywhere - is Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, which is usually known as Vale. It is one of the three biggest mining companies in the world and is the world's biggest iron ore miner, controlling about 27% of the global market. It also produces coal, nickel, copper, bauxite, alumina, aluminium and a wide range of other commodities. As a result of the needs of its mining operations, it also invests heavily in power plants, railways and port infrastructure. Vale currently has investments totalling $7.7bn in nine African countries and plans to invest more than $18bn in Africa over the next five years but much will depend on the direction of global markets over that time." "The firm's biggest investment, however, is its Moatize coal mining project in the Moatize Basin of Tete Province in northwestern Mozambique."
Patrice Lumumba. Etienne Davignon. Bilderberg. Umicore "brags that it shares 50% of the global market in materials for lithium-ion batteries". David Cronin’s book Corporate Europe: How Big Business Sets Policies on Food, Climate and War will be published in August. It is available for pre-ordering from Pluto Press (www.plutobooks.com).
"La population a hérité de 50 millions de tonnes de résidus radioactifs stockés à Arlit et Areva continue de pomper gratuitement 20 millions de mètres cubes d'eau par an pendant que la population meurent de soif", a dénoncé M. Mamane. Selon lui, "les rues et les habitations d'Arlit sont construits à l'aide de résidus radioactif et la nappe phréatique usée et contaminée s'assèche par la faute d'Areva". "Le pire c'est que Areva continue de nier tout cela", a-t-il déploré.
CODESRIA Kenya extracts soda ash, limestone, gold, cement and gemstones but its resources are not exploited on a scale comparable to neighbouring Tanzania, Uganda or the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, the recent discovery of commercially viable oil reserves in Turkana [http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/...], the impending arrival of a new port and oil refinery on the island of Lamu, enormous rare earth and titanium deposits found in Kwale [http://allafrica.com/stories/201307...], and discoveries of gold in Narok and Migori [http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/...] have caught the eye of new investors, hungry to turn a handsome profit from the country’s untapped resources.
President Condé of Guinea at Davos , Jan 2014 (Guardian 22.1.14): "... we live in a global economy. We simply can't deal with the network of corruption embedded in a few key western institutions from a distance of nearly 3,000 miles. These corrupt practitioners operate from the west, but their practices are global and require a global response. Only tighter, more responsive and highly co-ordinated action between law enforcement authorities in both developing nations and the world's financial centres will be effective... With international legal co-operation, Guinea will soon be announcing the outcome of an investigation into some of the most disturbing allegations of mining corruption in Africa's history. I ask other countries to do the same with their own financial institutions."
Patrick Bons on "... the difference between bogus ‘Africa Rising’ rhetoric as GDP increases thanks to raw materials exports, and Africa crashing in terms of fast-shrinking wealth, especially in resource-cursed countries like Nigeria and South Africa. To fail to acknowledge the distinction is to import from malevolent Northern economists what University of Pretoria political economist Lorenzo Fioramonti calls a Gross Domestic Problem. It means ignoring women’s unpaid labour, pollution, social ills and a variety of other variables that should be measured as losses from net income. The biggest of these GDP-blind factors in Africa is the depletion of natural resources, which when mined or drilled out are only counted as GDP credits on the income accounts, but not as debits, as they should be since a source of future income is now gone. "
In the Obama years, US Africa Command has also built a sophisticated logistics system, officially known as the Africom Surface Distribution Network, but colloquially referred to as "the new spice route". Its central nodes are in Manda Bay, Garissa and Mombasa in Kenya; Kampala and Entebbe in Uganda; Bangui and Djema in the CAR; Nzara in South Sudan; Dire Dawa in Ethiopia; and the Pentagon's showpiece African base, Camp Lemonnier.
"La population a hérité de 50 millions de tonnes de résidus radioactifs stockés à Arlit et Areva continue de pomper gratuitement 20 millions de mètres cubes d'eau par an pendant que la population meurent de soif", a dénoncé M. Mamane. Selon lui, "les rues et les habitations d'Arlit sont construits à l'aide de résidus radioactif et la nappe phréatique usée et contaminée s'assèche par la faute d'Areva". "Le pire c'est que Areva continue de nier tout cela", a-t-il déploré.