Ministers adopt forward-looking declaration to take the African mining vision into action ECA

African Union Ministers at the 2nd African Union Conference on a Sustainable Future for Africa’s Extractive Industry today adopted a declaration of intent to implement the Africa Mining Vision. Mining Ministers from several countries, including, Algeria, Congo, Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia attended the Conference. Senior officials from over 29 African countries, as well as representatives from the regional economic communities, the mining industry, donors, academics and other specialists in the sector were also in attendance. The Ethiopian Minister for Mines, Sinkinesh Ejigu, who chaired this year’s Mining Conference, had earlier urged Africa’s development partners at a roundtable on the implementation of the Mining Vision to play a key role in overcoming the challenges confronting the mining sector.

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Format: Press release biblioteca
Language:eng
Published: 2011-12
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10855/32766
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