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Nevsun Resources Ltd. puts Canadian values and innocent lives at stake

April 10, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Aaron Berhane When is the Vancouver-based mining company, Nevsun Resources Ltd., going to do business ethically? When will it admit to knowing about its gross human rights violations in Eritrea? The Eritrean Canadian Human Rights Group testified at an … read more »

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Eritrean troops lay siege to ministry

January 21, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Eritrean soldiers with tanks laid siege to the information ministry on Monday and forced state media to call for political prisoners to be freed, a senior intelligence official said. The renegade soldiers had not gone as … read more »

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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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Canadian mining firm questioned for activities in Eritrea

November 3, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Michelle Zilio A Canadian mining company defended its activities in Eritrea — a nation dubbed the “North Korea of Africa” by some — at a Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights meeting Thursday. Cliff Davis, president and CEO of … read more »

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