AFRICA

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Ten of the world’s most powerful oil, gas and mining companies own 6,038 subsidiaries and over a third of them are based in secrecy jurisdictions, a new Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Norway report today reveals.

Secrecy jurisdictions facilitate illicit financial flows, to which the developing world loses US$1 trillion a year.

Today for the first time, the G8 endorsed mandatory disclosure of extractive industry payments to governments.

Activists Deliver Letter to David Cameron from 200 Ugandans

Ugandan activists have delivered a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, calling on the UK Government to ‘end the resource curse’ by supporting greater transparency in the oil industry. The letter was organised by the Publish What You Pay Coalition and signed by over 200 civil society activists from Uganda.

The Publish What You Pay coalition strongly welcomes the announcement by the UK Government that it will push for the implementation of oil, gas and mining transparency laws in the EU. If introduced, such laws would require that companies listed in the EU publish what they pay to governments for the extraction of minerals around the world. This will improve revenue transparency, helping to eradicate the corruption that has blighted some mineral rich states and improve the lives of millions of people in the developing world.

I am Chairperson of Publish What You Pay Uganda and work for an organisation called Global Rights Alert. In Uganda we are striving to ensure that the recently discovered oil in our country helps us fight poverty, disease and develop economically.

Publiez Ce Que Vous Payez Cameroun

PCQVP Cameroun entame, avec une énergie renouvelée, sa sixième année de campagne pour une gestion responsable du sous-sol Camerounais. Lancée en 2005 à partir d’un atelier régional PCQVP organisé à Yaoundé, la coalition, après un début enthousiaste, s’est efforcée à affronter les réalités du travail en coalition.

London: Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Gabon Coordinator Marc Ona Essangui has won the prestigious international Goldman Environmental Prize, which is often awarded to individuals who take significant personal risks to protect the environment and local communities.

On the occasion of French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s two-day tour of Africa on 26-27 March 2009, PWYP Africa and PWYP France have called on the French leader to ensure France does more to increase transparency, enable a fairer sharing of resources between companies and producing countries, and to respect its commitment to accountability in the management of natural resource revenues.

The French President is visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo-Brazzaville, and Niger on his fifth tour of Afr

While addressing political and civil authorities in Angola last Friday Pope Benedict XVI stated that the Publish What You Pay coalition merits support, along with other initiatives including the Kimberly Process and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).

During his inaugural tour of Africa, which took in Angola and Cameroon on 17-23 March 2009, the Pope made ending corruption and promoting transparency and good governance a recurring theme.