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International mining company Banro, has been under attack by armed groups in the violence ridden eastern DRC. The company blames the attacks on a few bandits but Judith Verweijen believes that through downplaying the incidents, nothing will be resolved.
Kenyans are governed by a democratic state and is guided by a progressive constitution. But tribal tensions recur every election cycle. Kevin Maina weighs in on what would work better in a country where ethnicity trumps nationality.
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Mining company Banro closed artisanal mining sites like this one in the DRC.
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Judith Verweijen, Ghent University
Industrial gold mining companies in eastern Congo have faced violent attacks over friction between industrial and artisanal mining.
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Politics + Society
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Kevin Maina, SMC University
One way to diffuse the tension when Kenyans choose a head of state is to take that decision out of their hands. This could help achieve ethnic cohesion.
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Business + Economy
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Patrick Bond, University of the Witwatersrand
The sub-imperial formation called BRICS, which pretends to be a progressive global force could be divided by a series of crises.
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Environment + Energy
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Andrew Slaughter, Rhodes University
Desalination has been proposed as one of many strategies to deal with the water shortages. But the process is known to be expensive and harmful to the environment.
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