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World leaders promise an end to the ‘chainsaw massacres’ causing deforestation at COP26
As long as agribusinesses and global financial institutions continued to fuel and make money from global deforestation these carbon sinks will continue to be razed
Fears of violence persist a year after the murder of land activist Fikile Ntshangase
The court battle to stop coal mining in rural KwaZulu-Natal has heightened the sense of danger among environmental activists
Record number of land and environmental defenders killed globally in 2020
In South Africa, environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase and police detective Leroy Bruwer were killed
The living nightmare of environmental activists who protest mine expansion
Last week Fikile Ntshangase was gunned down as activists fight mining company Tendele’s expansions. Community members tell the M&G about the ‘kill lists’ and the dread they live…
Alarm bells ring over activist death toll
A new Global Witness report has revealed that environmental activists were killed at the rate of more than two a week in 2011.
Report: Mugabe’s loyalists squirrelling diamond money
Global Witness has said mining officials loyal to President Robert Mugabe are stashing profits from Zimbabwe’s diamond fields off shore.
Angola’s top officials reap the cream
Lobby groups want multinational companies to stand against a government that bends the rules.
Kimberley Process left in the lurch over diamond dispute
Global Witness has left the Kimberley Process after a series of disagreements, including the resumption of sales of Zimbabwe’s Marange diamonds.
Zim to get huge diamond boost but activists irate
Zimbabwe could earn billions of dollars selling diamonds from an area scarred by abuse after a crisis that left the "blood diamond" watchdog tattered.
Zim rulers running diamond trade with ‘corruption, violence’
Zimbabwe’s political and military leaders have used violence and intimidation to seize control of the country’s lucrative diamond business.
Call for Zim to scrap sale of blood diamonds
A rights group on Wednesday called on Zimbabwe to abandon plans to sell "blood diamonds" from a field plagued by abuses.
Global Witness condemns use of ‘conflict minerals’
The watchdog group Global Witness on Monday urged cellphone manufacturers to beware of "conflict minerals" being used in their products.
Watchdog alleges discrepancies in Sudan oil figures
Sudan’s central government could owe its semi-autonomous south hundreds of millions of dollars in oil revenue, a watchdog group said on Monday.
NGO: Banks facilitate corruption in poor countries
Some of the world’s biggest banks have been dealing with some of the world’s most corrupt regimes, Global Witness said in a report on Wednesday.
DRC’s murky mining trade feels pinch of global pressures
Rich Congolese mineral deposits are both the bounty and the curse of the war-torn nation, the seeds of recovery and the drivers of the bloody conflict