Africa update
Published by MAC on 2007-04-14
Africa update
14th April 2007
The Guinea government says it will review all foreign mining contracts, as a new cabinet takes charge following weeks of bloodily-repressed demonstrations against striking workers - some of which were directed against Alcoa.
[see: http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Action/press1347.htm]
What may be the final assault against farmers resisting Tiomin's notorious minerals sands project in Kenya took place last Thursday, just as the company announced major new funding from China's Jinchuan.