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How Shoddy Kenyan Businesses Exploit Legal Loopholes to Steal Billions From Mining

Business
  • The firms exploit legal loopholes to steal, they exploiting gaps in beneficial ownership laws to repatriate billions of profits in the mining sector
  • According to the report, Kenya’s mining industry has the potential to contribute 4-10 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.
  • The country earned Sh300 billion from the mining sector last year.

Corrupt individuals in Kenya are exploiting gaps in beneficial ownership laws to repatriate billions of profits in the mining sector, limiting its contribution to the general economy.

A new report released by the Global Financial Integrity (GFI) dubbed ‘Illicit Financial Flows Related to Beneficial Ownership in the Mining Sector in Kenya’ regrets that several billions have been lost over the years.

According to the report, Kenya’s mining industry has the potential to contribute 4-10 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.

“Unfortunately, the sector contributes less than a percentage of the country’s GDP which is significantly

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Blockchain’s potential in unlocking Africa’s supply chains

Tech & Business

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) recently published the Economic Development for Africa 2023 Report. The document, titled "The Potential of Africa to Capture Technology-Intensive Global Supply Chains," looks at Africa's capacity to become a prominent player in global supply chains for "high-technology" industries, which include automobiles, mobile phones, green energy, and healthcare.…

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What the AfCFTA Means for the Mining sector 

Tech & Business

The AfCFTA gives Africa an opportunity to confront its trade and economic development challenges such as market fragmentation, small-scale national economies, a narrow export base, caused by shallow manufacturing capacity, and underdeveloped industrial regional value chains.

AfCFTA is one of the tools for making a fundamental structural transformation for Africa’s economy and placing it on the path of long-term industrial development. AfCFTA will also strengthen the continent’s bargaining position when engaging in trade negotiations with economic powers such as China and the European Union. This implies that trade will become more favourable for African products, and now when Africa partners with the likes of China and other countries, focus should be on capital supply as well as industrialisation.…

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Zimbabwe’s Mining Sector Anticipating Growth in 2020

Africa

Zimbabwe’s Mining Sector,

In the 6th State Of The Mining Industry Prospects For 2021 Report, Zimbabwe’s mining sector representatives projected an optimistic outlook for 2021, citing an improvement in COVID-19 control, rising commodity prices, and an improved fiscal environment.

The mining sector faced a difficult year on the back of falling commodity prices. The situation was exacerbated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic which ravaged the entire globe.

The findings of the report indicate that the mining sector business confidence index is expected to improve to +3.1 in 2021 from 2.2 in 2020. The mining sector business confidence index is a measure of optimism (or lack of it) among mining executives.

Of the respondent interviewed, 90% of the miners in the country said they are looking forward to expanding their businesses in the coming year. This is in contrast with the 10% that don’t foresee any change in …