African Minerals Development Centre

Challenges Faced by African States in Mining and Petroleum Contract Negotiations with Special Emphasis on Stabilisation Clauses

While African States are well endowed with natural resources, especially those related to mines and petroleum, their populations do not sufficiently benefit from their extraction. Foreign investors and multinational corporations are often the main beneficiaries, with countries receiving a share of revenue that may ultimately inflict long-term damage to their national economies. An important instrument through which multinational companies protect their interests is the stabilisation clause that attempts to freeze the regulatory power of the state for the duration of the contract.

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Geological Experts seek to improve Mineral Information Systems

Cape Town, South Africa, 23 August 2016 –A meeting of geological experts is underway in Cape Town this week aimed at reviewing the African Geological Mineral Information System (GMIS) strategy. The strategy will introduce African Mining Vision (AMV)-compliant initiatives that will improve geological and geospatial information and its use in mining and broad development processes in Africa.

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Malawi aligns its mining policy to the Africa Mining Vision

Addis Ababa, 12 August 2016  –The Malawi Government through Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining with the support of African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) hosted a three-day stakeholder consultative meeting to review its 1981 Mines and Minerals Act (MMA) and to align its Mining Regulations and new Petroleum Policy to the Africa Mining Vision (AMV).

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Malawi establishes AMDC-supported task team on mining contract negotiations

Lilongwe, Malawi, 9 June 2016 (ECA) – The African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) together with the Government of Malawi announced the formation of a contract negotiation task team to support, Malawi’s Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, the Honourable Bright Msaka SC, announced on Thursday 2 June in Lilongwe, Malawi.
 
The announcement was made at the conclusion of a successful workshop as part of the “strengthening the capacity of African governmen
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AMDC helps develop an Artisanal and Small Scale Mining knowledge hub

 
(Paris, France) 15 May 2016 – The African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) recently participated in a two day meeting in Paris, France organized by the Sustainable Artisanal Mining Project (SAM) and Swiss Resource Centre and Consultancies for Development (SKAT) to help formalize concepts for an Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) International Knowledge Hub (IKH).  This meeting was held on the sidelines of the ICGLR-OECD-UN GoE Joint Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains.
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Sierra Leone develops new Core Minerals Policy in line with Africa Mining Vision

(Freetown, Sierra Leone) 10 June 2016 – In Sierra Leone, the Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources is in the process of preparing a new Core Minerals Policy (CMP) in line with the Africa Mining Vision (AMV).
 
In support of this initiative, the African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) will assist the government of Sierra Leone in its roll out of a sensitization workshop held in Freetown 19 - 21 July 2016.
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