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Today Thousands of illegal diamond diggers will  be granted a mining permit by the department of mineral resources as part of a plan to formalise the trade which is draining the industry, according to Deputy Mining Minister Godfrey Oliphant. After years of illegally extracting diamond fragments from a mining site owned by the Kimberley Ekapa Mining Joint Venture, the Kimberley Artisanal Mineworkers will finally be recognised as a legal mining cooperative. “This is a major milestone for both the mining group and the miners who for a long time have been seen as illegal miners,” said Oliphant. “This came after lengthy consultations between all the parties, including the provincial government of the Northern Cape,” Oliphant told Fin24. Oliphant estimates that illegal mining in the gold sector alone costs companies over R70-billion a year. Ekapa Mining has made available about 400 hectares of land to the group, where they have dug deep furrows and holes in search...

The Lamu wind project in Baharini Village, near the town of Mpeketoni, is expected to a produce 90MW (120,000 hp) of electrical power in the Mpeketoni Division at the Kenyan coast in Lamu County. The planned wind station will sit on 3,200 acres (5.0 sq mi) of land and will consist of 38 wind turbines. The power generated will be evacuated via a new 323 kilometers (201 mi), 220 kV power line from Lamu to Rabai, where it will be integrated into the national grid for use across the country. Electrawinds, will be collaborating with Kenwind Holdings on this project that is partly being financed by the International Finance Corporation, a branch of the World Bank. The commission date for construction is expected to be in 2020 and will contribute to Kenya’s goal of having 2036MW of wind power, this is 9% of the country’s total capacity, by the year 2030. It will be Kenya’s largest single private investment in the country’s history which will eliminate Kenya’s ther...