RAID's Executive Director to Address MPs on the Impact of Extractive Industries on Development

An upcoming meeting hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Debt, Aid and Trade on



'Undermining Development? The Impact of Extractive Industry Policies on Development'

Tuesday 1 July 18.00


Committee Room 5, Palace of Westminster, with:



Kevin D’Souza – Associate Director and Principal Mining Engineer, Wardell Armstrong LLP

Patricia Feeney – Executive Director, Rights and Accountability in Development [RAID – UK]

Simon Gilbert – Manager External Affairs, De Beers Group


And a Representative of the Office of the Special Advisors, DFID tbc


If you wish to attend please send an RSVP to birchj@parliament.uk

'New fight for Congo's riches'

Scores of lucrative mining concessions handed out by President
Joseph Kabila are in doubt after a report questioned their
legality. Will a programme of renegotiation finally allow a
beleaguered nation to exploit its huge mineral wealth? Nick
Mathiason reports

Nick Mathiason
Sunday June 29 2008
The Observer

To see this story with its related links on the guardian.co.uk
site, go to
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jun/29/mining.congo