Over 50% of DR Congo's diamond exports now go to UAE
Until 15 years ago, almost 90% went to Belgium, Congo's former colonial ruler.

Our 2023 Progress Report, now in its first-ever digital edition, is live! 🚀 Explore how the EITI is advancing progress on its six strategic priorities to support accountable natural resource management.

Learn more 👉 eiti.org/documents/eiti…

A severe flaw in Ricardo's model used by idiotic economists:

By sending your manufacturing to China, you also send your accidental DISCOVERY to China.

See #Antifragile : science is more likely to come from technology (and business) than the reverse.

Something I tried to communicate repeatedly. When the capital you have some leverage over retreats, in the current multi-polar enviro, this does not leave a vacuum. Other sources of capital, over which you have no leverage, step in.

Great meeting between President Samia Suluhu Hassan ⁦TEAM Samia 🇹🇿⁩ and Rt Hon. Helen Clark ⁦Helen Clark⁩ on the importance of governance and transparency for a thriving extractives sector in #Tanzania ⁦EITI International⁩

Privileged to reconnect w/former UN Development Administrator Helen Clark, Board Prez of EITI International, in #DaresSalaam for discussion on the role of exractive industries, large & small, for value added & inclusive dev of middle income 🇹🇿. 🙏 🙏EITI International & Norway MFA embassy for invitation.

Yesterday HakiRasilimali hosted Rt. Hon. Helen Clark Helen Clark Chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative EITI International , and the former Prime Minister of New Zealand. 1/2

Great discussions in #DaresSalaam 🇹🇿 with Tanzanian CSO group HakiRasilimali and EITI Board Chair Helen Clark on extractives #transparency and climate financing.

Learn more about EITI implementation in #Tanzania : eiti.org/tanzania

Thrilled to have Helen Clark engaging with EITI stakeholders in Tanzania! EITI International

Really exciting discussion with Namibian colleagues on the EITI!

📣 Join this webinar at 10:00 CAT tomorrow for a lively discussion on extractive industry #transparency  in #Namibia 🇳🇦 with EITI's Gil and other experts 👇

👉 ippr.org.na/event/extracti…

It was good to spend some time at BI Norwegian Business School Handelshøyskolen BI today talking to Masters students in the Ethics and Sustainability course on the political economy of sustainability.

First time seeing these interesting pics of Julius Nyerere and his delegation at the White House, July 1963.
With Mwalimu was Herbert Chitepo (Chitepo was Director of Public Prosecutions in Tanganyika).
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Calling civil society activists and journalists. This is for you if you want to know more about extractive industry transparency and why it is so important for #Namibia

Deranged! 😊

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When it comes to iron ore deposits, geologically, there is Simandou in Guinea Conakry and then there is the rest of the world.

Here are some figures shared by the partners during a panel discussion I moderated #miningIndaba . The panelists were representatives of the consortium…

Speaking to President Joe Biden's Man. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🌍🌍
My conversation with President Biden’s Advisor on Energy and Trade amos hochstein at #MiningIndaba2024 offered a glimpse of Washington's policy swift. The White House

1. This is how he responded my question of why African governments…

Honored to have moderated this panel of Mining Ministers discussing ways to ‘push Africa into a new investment era’ at the Ministerial Symposium Mining Indaba Missed Ministers Ruth Nankabirwa Ssentamu Dele Alake #MI24

Announcement of the Passing of H.E Dr Dr Hage G. Geingob, President of the Republic of Namibia, 04 February 2024

Fellow Namibians,

It is with utmost sadness and regret that I inform you that our beloved Dr. Hage G. Geingob, the President of the Republic of Namibia has passed on…