The Daily IIJ

December 14, 2011 FROM Newton Sibanda in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia A major report on all aspects of mining in Africa will be launched on the sidelines of the on going Conference of Ministers Responsible for Mineral Resources Development in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa tomorrow. Titled ‘Minerals and Africa’s Development, the report was compiled by [...]

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FROM Newton Sibanda in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia CITIZENS for a Better Environment (CBE) executive director Peter Sinkamba says African governments need to protect communities who resort to litigation against mining firms by making it mandatory for governmentts to indemnify them against costs if they lost their cases in court. “We also need to develop quantum [...]

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FROM Newton Sibanda in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia THE second African Union Conference of ministers Responsible for minerals development opened yesterday with a clarion call for the continent to ensure that it achieves economic development from its mineral wealth. African Union Commission (AUC) Director for Trade and Industry Jean Noel Francois was the first to give [...]

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November 19, 2011 By NEWTON SIBANDA LUSAKA, Zambia-IN a landmark judgment, the Lusaka High Court has ordered Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) to pay K10billion (US$2million) to 2000 Chingola residents on Zambia’s Copperbelt for polluting the Mushishima river. The Mushishima is a tributary of the Kafue River, which accounts for about 40 percent of Zambia’s domestic [...]

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December 3, 2011 By NEWTON SIBANDA LUSAKA, Zambia- GERMANY has given Zambia K592 billion (Euro 87.1 million) as continued financial support to programmes aimed at improving water supply and sanitation, poverty reduction and decentralization of the local government system. Out of the total amount, K219.6 billion will go towards improving water supply and sanitation while [...]

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Discussions around the severity of the October 2011 flooding in slum urban communities in Accra, particularly around the area called Sodom and Gomorrah, are controversial. Majority of the media coverage blamed poor drainage and solid waste management systems in the capital as the culprit, while others linked the intensity of the rains to climate change. [...]

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The United Nations has launched a new campaign to engage people around the world in a global conversation on the kind of communities they would like to live in twenty years from now.  The campaign will also promote its major conference on sustainable development (Rio+20) to be held in June next year. Continue reading http://www.globalnewsreel.com/2011/11/un-forecasts-better-communities-in.html

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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and China’s academy of sciences has launched a joint programme designed to promote proper management of ecosystems in developing countries, with a special focus on Africa. The International Ecosystem Management Partnership (IEMP), an initiative of the UNEP and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), will have the core mandate [...]

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Ghana’s Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, Hanny-Sherry Ayittey has argued that since crucial dimensions of environmental quality are not private goods sold in the markets to benefit certain group of people, it should be sustained equitably. Continue reading http://www.globalnewsreel.com/2011/11/crucial-environmental-dimensions-not.html

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The Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU) is taking farmers’ concerns about climate change to COP 17 in Durban to call for the global negotiations to put agriculture firmly on the climate change agenda and establish a work program that will outline and coordinate the necessary responses for the sector. SACAU has been granted [...]

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