Tag Archives: Bisha

Western Mining Companies and Slave Labor in Eritrea

January 20, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Yosief Ghebrehiwet Western Mining Companies and Slave Labor in Eritrea [On April 21, 2010, I wrote an article addressing only one aspect of what has been going on in the mining projects – the slave labor used by the subcontracted … read more »

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Rights Group: Eritrea Forces Workers to Build Mine

January 15, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

An international human rights group is accusing the Eritrean government of using forced labor to construct a gold mine it jointly owns with a Canadian company worth billions of dollars. Human Rights Watch said in a report Tuesday that workers … read more »

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Canadian miner Nevsun accused of using forced labour at Eritrea mine

January 12, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Handout A Jan 2013 handout photo of a truck at Nevsun’s Bisha mine in Eritrea. When the Vancouver-based miner initiated construction of Bisha in late 2008, the government ordered the miner to enlist a state-controlled contractor called Segen Construction for … read more »

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