Failure to respect the environment: the penalties foreseen (3/3)
The National Environmental Assessment Agency (Agence nationale des Évaluations environnementales, ANEVE) is the structure responsible for implementing all environmental assessment strategies in Burkina Faso. What are the recurring failings in terms of non-respect for the environment? What are the difficulties encountered by ANEVE and how can they be overcome? ANEVE's Managing Director, Alain P.K. Gomgnimbou, answers this question in...
Energy transition: African civil society in search of a fair and equitable solution
From 8 to 10 June 2023, the city of Saly in Senegal will be hosting the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Global Coalition's 2023 Africa Conference on the theme "Towards a collaborative and just energy transition for Africa". More than 200 participants have registered for this conference, which is being held face-to-face for the first time following the Covid19...
The Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Africa Conference opens tomorrow in Senegal
The Publish What You Pay (PWYP) 2023 Africa Conference takes place from Thursday 8 to Saturday 10 June 2023 in the city of Saly, Senegal on the theme "Towards a collaborative and just energy transition in Africa". The conference is expected to welcome more than 100 participants from various sectors and countries in Africa and beyond. Among other things,...
Environmental protection: the NGO Greenpeace mobilises to prevent seabed mining
On Saturday 3 June 2023 in Rouen, the environmental NGO Greenpeace held a global day of action to raise awareness of the forthcoming bulldozer mining of the seabed. To mark the occasion, the local branch in Rouen took action in front of the cathedral to inform passers-by about the project.A number of Rouen-based NGO activists staged a "happening" in...
Environmental protection in the mining sector: the key role of the environmental and social impact assessment (2/3)
Alain P.K. Gomgnimbou, Doctor of Environmental Science and Director General of the Agence Nationale des Évaluations Environnementales (ANEVE), tells us that "all mining projects undergo an environmental assessment prior to start-up". He was speaking in an interview on the occasion of World Environment Day, celebrated every 5 June. What is the process for obtaining an environmental and social impact...
Environmental protection in the mining sector: The Ministry of the Environment, through ANEVE, monitors environmental management, according to Dr Alain P.K. Gomgnimbou, Managing Director of ANEVE (1/3)
Since 1974, the international community has celebrated World Environment Day every 5 June. Its commemoration aims to raise awareness and encourage action to protect the environment. The theme of World Environment Day on 5 June 2023 will focus on solutions to plastic pollution as part of the "Fight Plastic Pollution" campaign. The environmental news website https://minesactu.info asked Dr Alain...
Burkina Faso: The process of revising the Mining Code in progress
The Secretary General (SG) of the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Quarries, Jean-Baptiste KABORE, chaired the national workshop for the validation of the draft mining code on Friday 2 June 2023 in Ouagadougou.After 07 years of implementation of the 2015 Mining Code and its application texts, it has proved necessary to take stock in order to identify shortcomings and...
Mali: Resignation of the Minister of Mines and Energy, Lamine Seydou Traoré
A chartered accountant with a proven track record in the private sectorFaced with power cuts in MaliThey denounce projects blocked by the Malian presidencyLamine Seydou Traoré is no longer Mali's Minister of Mines, Energy and Water. He tendered his resignation on 31 May 2023 to Prime Minister Choguel K Maïga, who accepted it, according to a statement broadcast on...
Preventing corruption in energy transition minerals supply chains
The experts made an urgent call for reforms to tackle the pressing problem of corruption in the transition minerals supply chains.Corruption undermines essential safeguards that protect local communities and the environment, redirects public money into private hands, and disrupts and delays production at the very time when responsibly produced minerals are urgently needed to meet climate targets.Corruption in mineral...
Transition minerals could transform the DRC, but local communities must have their say
This opinion piece was published by Jean-Claude Katende, National Coordinator of Publish What You Pay (PWYP) DRC. It was first published on 13 November 2022 in the Ugandan newspaper The Independent before PWYP reprinted it on its website on 21 November 2022.Read the full version:Transitional minerals could transform the Democratic Republic of Congo, but local communities must have their...
