Overseas Private Investment Corporation / IMF/World Bank / Adam Smith International / Koidu Holdings / Sierra Minerals Limited / Sierra Rutile Limited / Titanium Resources Group / Global Rights Partners / /
Continent
Africa / /
Country
Tanzania / United Kingdom / British Virgin Islands / United States / Sierra Leone / /
Currency
GBP / USD / EUR / cent / SLL / /
Event
Product Issues / Funding / Layoffs / Business Partnership / M&A / Person Communication and Meetings / Reorganization / /
Facility
Background The Sierra Rutile mine / University of Sierra Leone / Furah Bay College / /
IndustryTerm
public financial information / large-scale miner / health services / machinery / palm oil / clear law / energy / plastics / pharmaceuticals / food production / large-scale kimberlite diamond miner / large mining / private employer / underground mining / collects mining licences / diamond miner / rutile mining area / infrastructural services / signed individual mining agreements / public services / healthcare / social services / electricity / artisanal mining / individual mining / industrial miner / mining / /
NaturalFeature
sierra EC / Sierra Leone / /
Organization
Department of Geology / International Monetary Fund / Presidential Task Force / US government / Gold and Diamond Office / Furah Bay College / Anti-Coruption Commission / Sierra Leone government / Task Force / Total government / International Crisis Group / civil society / Rutile Area Community Development Fund / EU’s European Development Fund / Ministry of Mineral Resources / European Union / Network Movement for Justice and Development / National Advocacy Coalition On Extractives / Ministry of Local Government / National Revenue Authority / Government of Sierra Leone / State Department / Overall government / Ministry of Labour / Social Security and Industrial Relations / Sierra Leonean government / Peace Diamond Alliance / Department of State / World Bank / University of Sierra Leone / United Nations / Sierra Leone Indigenous Miners Movement / National Security Council / Agricultural Development Fund / Diamond Area Community Development Fund / Environmental Department / United Miners Union / Malian government / consider introducing a Rutile Area Community Development Fund / /
Person
Minerals Act / Baroness Valerie Amos / Christian Aid / Ernest Bai Koroma / John Sisay / Walter Kansteiner / Augustine Torto / Bob Lloyd / /
Position
secretary of state for Africa / President / mines management officer / large-scale kimberlite diamond miner / private investor / industrial / large-scale miner / producer / head / director general / engineer / chair of the parliamentary committee / official / CEO / assistant secretary of state for Africa / the deputy director US$150 / minister / general manager / director of mines / MP / researcher / non-executive chairman / asistant secretary / director / senior official / secretary of state for international development / chair / diamond miner / non-executive director / industrial miner / then asistant secretary / director of African affairs / /
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