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Rio Tinto Responds to critical Reports on its Practices in Mozambique Coal Fields

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JOHANNEBSURG, June 4 – In a welcome move, the Anglo-Australian mining giant, Rio Tinto, has responded to a recent report from the Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) entitledCoal versus Communities in Mozambique: Exposing poor practices by VALE and Rio Tinto, which highlighted a number of serious concerns about the resettlement programme and treatment of local communities by Rio Tinto and... Read More

PERSECUTION OF RALPH KASAMBARA ACCELERATES SLIDE TOWARDS A POLICE STATE IN MALAWI

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JOINT STATEMENT BY THE OPEN SOCIETY INITIATIVE FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA (OSISA) AND THE SOUTHERN AFRICA LITIGATION CENTRE (SALC) Johannesburg: The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) condemn this week’s persecution of Malawi’s former Attorney-General, Ralph Kasambara, and express alarm at the country’s continuing slide away from established principles of democracy and rule... Read More