While the international elite of mining professionals gather in Cape Town next week for the Mining Indaba, a network of organisations including AFRODAD will arrange a side event to shed light on the detrimental social and economic effects of mining practices around Africa.

The plan to privatise Kenyan railways backed by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), which is owned by the World Bank, becomes a nightmare.

Tomorrow Robert Zoellick will start an eight-day visit to Africa.  He will visit Sierra leone, Cote d'Ivoire and then Ethiopia for the African Union summit.

The United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe has according to The Herald said that Washington will support a motion to bring back Zim's voting rights in the IMF.