Ghana to host three-day workshop on Mining Regimes in Africa

Ghana to host three-day workshop on Mining Regimes in Africa

November 22, 2009
It is being organised by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in collaboration with the Department of Industry and Mines of the ECOWAS Commission, Third World Network-Africa and the NEPAD and Regional Integration Division at the Economic Commission for Africa.

Some 60 participants made up of officials from the African Union, African Development Bank, Mano River Union, ECOWAS Commission, senior government officials, private sector and non-governmental organisations, among others will attend the meeting.

He said the workshop would enhance appreciation of the importance of creating regulatory and fiscal mining regimes in Africa which had an improved focus on sustainable development, good governance and management of revenues in the mineral sector.

Also on the agenda will be the African Legal Support Facility, an African Development Bank establishment, that seeks to offer the overall framework for assisting African countries in natural resources development.

GNA