Citizen reporting for better mining in Africa
At the Alternative Mining Indaba held in February in Cape Town, South Africa, Deprose Muchena, Board Chairperson of Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW), cited the extractive industry’s legacy of human rights abuses and environmental violations, long coupled with exclusion and underdevelopment of affected communities. Introducing SARW’s new mobile reporting application, African Mining Accountability Platform (AMAP), he said: “We cannot continue to witness a paradox where nations rich in natural resources remain poor in human development. This platform is a step towards ensuring that communities benefit from the resources they rightfully own.”
