Burundi
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Yves Bawa
country director
ybawa@pactworld.org
Nikita Gurudas
program manager
ngurudas@pactworld.org
Pact, partners reach critical milestone in mineral traceability in Africa
July 16, 2015
While work remains, Pact and its partners have made significant progress implementing a traceability and due diligence system in the Great Lakes region of Africa to assure minerals as conflict-free,...
Report sheds new light on conflict-free mining in Africa's Great Lakes
July 14, 2015
Today, Pact released a report detailing the state of conflict-free minerals in The Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. The report provides an in-depth look at traceability and due...
Not an easy job, but a better one
June 1, 2015
Five days a week at 7 a.m., Jean-Marie arrives at a mining site known as Rwamirambo I, located in Giteranyi village, in the province of Muyinga, Burundi. With a pickaxe and torch, he extracts...
Improved mining practices betters lives and incomes of local artisanal miners
July 25, 2014
Four years after the introduction of new rules for the regulation of tin, tantalum, and tungsten mineral supply chains from Central Africa, nearly 700 mines in the Great Lakes Region of Africa are...
Improving mineral sourcing in Burundi
July 16, 2014
In May 2014, Burundi became the third country in the African Great Lakes Region to implement the internationally accepted iTSCi due diligence and mineral traceability system. iTSCi will be expanded...