Day: 15 October 2025

  • October 15, 2025

Equity in Extraction Conference 2025: West Africa Confronts Inequality in Resource Governance

The Equity in Extraction Conference 2025 is currently underway, bringing together researchers, policymakers, civil society leaders, activists, and labor groups from across Africa and beyond to discuss how the continent can better manage its vast natural resources in a fair, sustainable, and climate-conscious way. West Africa is richly endowed with critical minerals—such as cobalt, nickel, […]
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  • October 15, 2025

Weak resource governance deepening inequality in Africa- NDPC boss warns

The Director-General of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Dr Audrey Smock Amoah, has urged African governments to ensure that the continent’s natural resources become a source of shared prosperity rather than a driver of inequality and environmental destruction. Speaking at the High-Level West Africa Conference on Equity in Extraction, organised by the Integrated Social Development […]
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