African Minerals

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Contact details

African Minerals Limited
5 Stratton Street
London W1J 8LA

People

Lobbying and PR firms

External resources

  • Human Rights Watch, 'Whose Development? Human Rights Abuses in Sierra Leone’s Mining Boom'
This 96-page report documents how the government and London-based African Minerals Limited forcibly relocated hundreds of families from verdant slopes to a flat, arid area in Tonkolili District. As a result, residents lost their ability to cultivate crops and engage in income generating activities that once sustained them. Police carried out a bloody crackdown in the town of Bumbuna in April 2012 to quell a protest by workers who went on strike after being barred from forming a union of their own choosing. <ref> Whose Development?, Human Rights Watch,

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