EITI in the news

Take Veil From Extractive Industries, British PM Says

14 May 2013Source: http://www.naturalgaseurope.com
UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, called for more openness among energy companies during his trip to Washington.

New report highlights benefits of transparency, challenges of translating it into accountability, and the scope of EITI

7 May 2013Source: http://www.globalwitness.org
Diarmid O'Sullivan, Open Society Foundation research fellow and ex-Global Witness campaigner has released a report on how transparency helps identify problems in the governance of natural resources, as well as the challenges in ensuring that this tr

Nigeria: FG Recovers U.S.$2 Billion From Oil Companies

7 May 2013Source: http://www.allafrica.com
FOllowing the independent audit reports that focused on public disclosure by the Nigerian EITI, the federal government has so far recovered about $2 billion debt owed it by oil firms operating in the country, NEITI said.

Museveni, donors discuss electoral reform

7 May 2013Source: http://www.newvision.co.ug
President Yoweri Museveni and European Union ambassadors discussed how development partners want the Government to take administrative action against all officials implicated in the corruption scandals as a precondition for resuming direct aid to Uganda

Liberia systematically breaking its own laws in oil, mineral, forest and land deals worth billions of dollars, new audit reveals.

6 May 2013Source: http://www.globalwitness.org
Global Witness welcomes a new audit recommending that the Liberian government take immediate action to address systematic gaps in compliance with laws on how its natural resources are allocated.

Resource deals audit overshadows Liberia anti-graft push

1 May 2013Source: http://www.reuters.com
Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has said the billions of dollars in foreign investment she has drawn since becoming Africa's first freely-elected female president in 2006 should help ordinary Liberians to climb out of poverty.

Ousmane Mey Wants Transparency in Extractive Industry

18 April 2013Source: http://www.cameroonpostline.com
Finance Minister and Chairman of the National Committee for Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, EITI, Alamine Ousmane Mey, has urged the Audit Bench of the Supreme Court to ensure transparency in Cameroon’s extractive industries sector.

MOGE Nudged toward Openness by Australian Lawyers

20 April 2013Source: http://www.irrawaddy.org
Australian government lawyers are helping Burma to reform Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise in preparation for the country to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

EITI Multi-Stakeholder group holds a meeting

15 April 2013Source: http://www.trend.az
The meeting of the MSG on implementation of the EITI in Azerbaijan was held in April.

DRC Probes $88M in missing mining revenue

15 April 2013Source: http://www.voanews.com
Anti-corruption investigators in the Democratic Republic of Congo say they can't trace more than $88 million that mining companies paid to a government revenue agency.

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