Where a mine owner is accountable to all three main stakeholders – the host country’s government, its people and civil society, and its own shareholders – who owns it is relatively less important I often find myself...
Dr Alain Tschudin
Deep-sea mining: Africa’s new frontier
Despite environmental concerns, deep-sea mining will be a reality by 2030 and African countries with coasts, including Namibia and Nigeria, want to ensure they will benefit from the ‘new gold rush’ Globally, mining...
The logic of the looter
Former colonisers and their multinational companies collude with Africa’s corrupt elites to facilitate looting, but both are under increasing scrutiny Africa’s oligarchs think they have perfected the art of looting....
Taxes and more taxes
Sub-Saharan governments are making easy money from selling exploration licences For decades, scholars have searched for explanations why mineral-rich sub-Saharan Africa performs poorly on most social and economic...
Lesotho: Southern Africa’s ‘water engine’
Lesotho exports water to South Africa at the same time as it imports the bottled product from its larger neighbour – and rural communities are forced to drink from unprotected sources Although Lesotho is a regional...
EDITORIAL: Dispelling the ‘resource curse’
Welcome to the first edition of Africa in Fact for 2018 – and the first to appear on shelves at selected bookstores. The topic is natural resources, which is also one of our core programmes at Good Governance Africa....
