The new dirty war for Africa's uranium and mineral rights

in #deepdives6 years ago

In Central Africa Republic, are collections of documents that open up a corrupt multi-billion dollar war by Western and Chinese companies grab uranium and other mining rights and escape paying for the environmental consequences.
Among the hundreds of pages in this publication are detailed maps of mining rights, mining contracts with illegal kickbacks and secret investigative reports. The documents have been long sought by fraud investigators. In December 2015 a case was filed against Areva, alleging corruption related to the €1.8 billion purchase of three uranium mines in 2007.

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Proper management was carried out by the local native authorities is overthrown either by duping state officials with deceiving front companies, such as UN registered World Sports Alliance (WSA), now recycled into a cover for mining companies or by corrupting them through payment of cash or bonuses. After a much gained exploitation of resources, a french multinational group specialising in nuclear power which is known as Areva- abandon the country, leaving behind the contamination without having launched any of the promised investments.
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The mining sector in Central African Republic: an overall view

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A land of gleaming diamonds and crippling poverty. The Central African Republic is one of the poorest countries in Africa with a per capita income of only 750 US dollars per year. ... Roughly 90 per cent of the population live in crippling poverty, without access to food, sanitation and decent housing.
The Central African Republic remains one of the poorest countries in Africa. Tens of thousands of vulnerable children are without access to basic services. Many of them have been orphaned by AIDS or civil war. SOS Children's Villages supports and protects the children of this country in two different locations.
These documents provide an over all view on the mining sector and its relationship with one of the poorest countries in the world. The Central Africa Republic put in place all sort of policies to avoid a legal, impositive, social and environmental obligations by the mining companies and the growing difficulties of the states to implement their decisions.

Geological Mapping of Nola Mbaiki Region

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In details, the map shows the exceoptional resources of the geographical area.
it is the map currently used by the Central African State, showing the lack of resources of its administration.

draft engagement letter for the attibution of engagement permit

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This draft shows another step in the mining circuit, the attribution of letters of engagement from the State in order to allow the mining companies without capital of their own to raise funds.

oil resources repartition

This 2011 document describes the genealogy of Central African Republic oil fields exploration and exploitation and proposes an administrative division of the fields in order to improve their exploitation and the expected revenues from it.Screenshot_2018-07-05-11-44-33-1.png

Pangea Diamondfield Technical Reports

Technical report on the Central African Republic mining sites, Dimbi and Etoile, which permit was finally obtained by the World Sports Alliance, and a nickel mine. It provides a detailed analysis of the resources available on the site. These reports, often multi-certified, have triggered important debates as they have been source of multiple conflicts of interest (they are systematically paid by the permit owner), manipulations and cases of fraud.
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References
https://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sos-usa.org/where-we-are/africa/central-african-republic&ved=0ahUKEwj7iMKEzYfcAhXJAcAKHQXTC5QQFggxMAI&usg=AOvVaw2ct_7clLdVeGBc_6ix1bIB
https://www.wikileaks.org/car-mining/#bonus

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Fantastic post. Thanks for putting it together.

Welcome to Deed Dives my friend! Thanks for this informative post on a topic that doesn't get nearly enough attention. There appears to be no end to exploitation of Africa's natural resources and the corruption of politicians and officials. Great entry!

Thank you buddy, you open my eyes to do many atrocities happening the world and Africa especially, I have more to unleashed related to issues like this, I could complete it to satisfaction because I was trying to play within the stipulated time given because I came across the post few hours before the time given.

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