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La Coalition congolaise Publiez Ce Que Vous Payez (PWYP Congo), une ONG luttant contre la corruption, juge “incompréhensible” des écarts relevés entre les revenus pétroliers déclarés par le Congo au FMI en 2010 et ceux de l’Initiative pour la transparence dans les industries extractives (ITIE).

“Il est simplement incompréhensible que pour 2010, les recettes pétrolières déclarées au Fonds monétaire international (FMI) se chiffrent à 1.758 milliards de Fcfa (plus de 2,6 milliards d’euros) et pour la même période, l’Initiative pour la transparence dans les industries extractives (ITIE) a décla

A coalition of civil society organisations, Publish What You pay (PWYP), has promised to recover the N5 billion allegedly missing from some banks from 1999 to 2005.

An audit by the Nigerian Extractive Industries Initiatives (NEITI) between 1999 and 2004 revealed that the amount covered was taxes and royalties from the oil and gas companies paid into some banks.

The group called for the disclosure of the payments to governments.

Publish What You Pay Nigeria, a non-governmental organization, NGO, has charged the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, to institute greater transparency and accountability for revenues and payments from the extractive sector.

In a statement made available to Vanguard, and signed by the National Coordinator, Ms Faith Nwadishi, the NGO said it has made some recommendations on the way forward after it looked at the gains and loopholes of the current system.

She said her organisation expected NEITI to expose the corruption and ills within the extractive sector in

Australia is a global mining giant. Our government and industry consider the country a leader in natural resource governance.

2011 will go into the annals of Uganda’s history as the year when the oil bubble burst. The last quarter of the year was characterised by much talk on oil that persistent media reports quoted the President advising Ugandans not to be so excited about the recent oil discoveries.

All this after the oil debate reached boiling point and climaxed with a special session in Parliament to discuss developments in the oil industry. At some point, the President was even quoted as having said that sometimes he has to be reminded that we even have oil in Uganda, saying he forgets.

The West may be paddling an ocean of debt and disorder–naught but austerity and tatty lifestyle reductions–but Africa is booming, especially Ghana, one of the world’s fastest growing economies in 2011.

In this West African nation, it’s the era of oil. Tapped just over a year ago in the Gulf of Guinea, the Jubilee Oil Field contributed seven per cent of the country’s 14.6 per cent growth last year. A reported 23 million barrels were lifted out of the field in 2011 by Ireland’s Tullow Oil and other stakeholders.

Uganda’s new oil and gas industry has brought with it new phrases, one of which is ‘national content sometimes called local content’. I had never heard usage of the term until recently when, like other Ugandans, I picked interest in knowing what is going on in our oil and gas sector.

SUSTAINABILITY performance is becoming an essential consideration for organisations worldwide, and the issues faced can vary dramatically depending on location, according to the Global Reporting Initiative’s report for 2011.

The Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) defines ‘corporate sustainability as a business approach that creates long-term shareholder value by embracing opportunities and managing risks deriving from economic, environmental and social developments’.

Such approaches mean embedding sustainability with business strategy whose financial reporting qualifies as mature cor

WASHINGTON, Dec 21, 2011 (IPS) – Electronics are at the top of many holiday gift lists in the U.S.