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Toronto-based Kinross Gold recently suspended work at its Tasiast mine to protest an order from Mauritania's government that unpermitted 'expatriates' stop working on the massive project.

This commentary is our fourth installment on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

Last week Toronto-based Lundin Mining hired the Bank of Montreal to help it decide what to do with its stake in the massive Tenke Fungurume copper-cobalt mine in Eastern Congo (

One of the perils that plagued Kenya’s land and natural resources sectors in the past was that of land grabs.

What do you call people who try to make other people believe what they say but ignore the results of what they do? How about spin-sploiters?

Most of its Australian shareholders call it Golden Pride Mine but to many Nzega District residents, they call it Golden Shame Mine.

A co-founder of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) in 1954 died in exile in Switzerland on December 23, 2015. Thousands of people attended the funeral of Hocine Ait Ahmed in his home village named after him in Berber-dominated region of Algeria.

Your Excellency, 2015 was a bad year for Kenya. All the pillars of our nationhood were tested and most were found wanting. Some collapsed, some were seriously weakened, while others were desecrated beyond repair.

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