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A PAPER PRESENTED AT THE SECAM CONSULTATIVE MEETING ON THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND
EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES: INTEGRITY OF CREATION
1.Knowing and Locating Malawi
Malawi is a small landlocked country located in South-Eastern Africa. It shares borders with Tanzania to the North, Mozambique to the South and East and Zambia to the West. It covers an area of 118,480 sq. km and has a population of 13 million people – the most densely populated country in Southern Africa. Below is a general ‘fact file’ that quickly places the |
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| Ghana has a long history of mining beginning in the early C16th. Until independence, Ghana was known as ‘GOLD COAST’ because of the abundance of gold in the country. It was during this same period of the early Portuguese encounter (1500s) that a famous trading town in the central region of Ghana was christened “LA MINA’ meaning, ‘the MINE’. The town is called ELMINA, a corruption of the Portuguese, ‘La Mina” or “the MINE”. This was because of the large amounts of gold that was obtained through trading with the indigenes. It is on record that all the gold obtained during his period was through surface mining and was on small scale, usually the work of women and children. Apart from gold, Ghana abounds in bauxite and diamond. more... |
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