On Friday, April 17th 2009, ECOWAS Ministers of Mines and Industries met in Abuja to adopt the Draft ECOWAS Mining Directive after a two-day meeting of experts from Member States.

The West African Civil Society Forum (WACSOF), which includes numerous members of the Publish What You Pay coalition put out the following press statement.

During the 4th EITI Global Conference in Doha, Qatar, members of the PWYP coalition were honoured to share a photo with President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia. During her speech at the opening of the conference, President Johnson-Sirleaf voiced her support for the activities of PWYP, for which we are most grateful.

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf with the PWYP Coalition

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The National Advocacy Coalition on Extractives (NACE) a civil society coalition with a membership of fifteen organizations active across the country has been immersed in a three days workshop geared towards increasing its capacity and contextualizing the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) process in a bid to make it relevant to our situation.

Adopted at a public forum on EITI in freetown

We, representatives of citizens groups in Sierra Leone, organized under the banner of the National Advocacy Coalition on Extractives (NACE), meeting at a public forum organized at our instance, with the support of DFID, on September 23, 2006 at Hotel Cabenda, Freetown;

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Save the Children strongly welcomes the Prime Minister’s leadership in launching the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. We call on government and business leaders today to seize the opportunity to increase financial transparency, in order to alleviate the corruption and conflict afflicting more than 700 million poor children in mineral-rich countries.

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London/Berlin – A majority of leading oil and gas companies are far from transparent when it comes to the payments they make to resource-rich countries, leaving the door open to corruption and hampering efforts to fight poverty, according to a report published today by Transparency International (TI).