Zamfara sets up an anti illegal mining committee. The Zamfara State government in Nigeria inaugurated a 13 member committee on Friday in Gusau to tackle illegal mining across the state. Secretary to the State Government Abubakar Mohammad Nakwada inaugurated the committee, which is chaired by Commissioner for Environment Abdulrahman Tumbido and draws members from security agencies, traditional institutions and federal and state agencies. Nakwada charged it with identifying where illegal mining is taking place and profiling those involved, as part of state support for the federal drive to formalise the mining sector. The inauguration followed worsening insecurity in mining communities in Anka local government area, where residents were reportedly ordered from their homes in October by an armed group leader over alleged refusal of forced labour in gang controlled gold mines.
MIND ID links its whistleblowing system to the KPK. Indonesia’s state owned mining holding MIND ID has signed a five year agreement, running 2026 to 2031, with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to integrate its OpenMIND internal complaints system with the commission’s system for handling reports of suspected corruption. The agreement was signed in Jakarta on Thursday, November 5, by MIND ID president director Maroef Sjamsoeddin and KPK deputy for information and data Eko Marjono, and also covers KPK assistance with internal policies, complaints handling programs, coordination and information exchange. MIND ID is the holding company for Antam, Bukit Asam, Freeport Indonesia, Inalum, Timah and Vale Indonesia, and Sjamsoeddin said clean governance was the foundation for its mandate to maximise the added value of Indonesia’s mineral wealth through downstreaming rather than extraction alone.