(PHOTO CREDITS: Courtesy THE STAR)
For a long time, the African mining sector was perceived to be an enclaved economy that extracted natural resources to the benefit of the global economy while offering little to advance social and economic development on the continent.
On the contrary, recent mining industry restructuring has fuelled fresh hopes that the sector carries the potential to drive industrialisation in Africa.
On the Global Day of Action that is marked in November yearly, the civil society clearly demonstrated why the extractives industry must be reclaimed from the hands of a few, wealthy and foreign multinational corporations to benefit the communities in Africa.
Speaking in one voice, the civil society successful organised and executed an online campaign themed ‘Campaigning on Tax Justice and Extractives; Our proposed calls and demands’.
