Picture by Biplab Basak The Bengal irrigation department is considering selling sand extracted from the Teesta riverbed to fund the costly dredging of the river in the plains. Dredging a 32km stretch ...

In Anglophone Cameroon – the Northwest and Southwest regions – years of alleged electoral fraud, a deadly and protracted conflict and political exclusion have eroded faith in democratic participation.

The Ministry of Mines has officially granted a mining license to Vadhavan Port Project Ltd. (VPPL) for dredging sand from an offshore ... economic growth in the region.

Stakeholders in the fight against human trafficking in Cameroon are alarmed by the scale of the issue after security forces rescued 100 children from traffickers in the country's western region.

This is especially concerning for regions where dredging is more intense and extraction already substantially surpasses the sediment budget from land to sea. Shallow sea mining for sand and gravel ...

In early 2024, the fisheries ministry said that 17.7 billion cubic metres of sand could be extracted from seven locations around the Natuna Islands, East Kalimantan and north Java. But given that it ...

ASATTAHIR International Foundation, Justice, Development and Peace Centre (JDPC), and several others across the Northwest region.

With that in mind, I thank Mr. President again for this laudable initiative to revive the Northwest region.” Governor Lawal noted that the visit by members of the commission presents an ...

The revenue department in Kalyan took action against illegal sand miners, leading to the seizure of four barges and five suction pumps worth Rs 57 lakh, which were subsequently destroyed.

Like something from the science fiction film "Dune", the "world's biggest mining dredger" has been swallowing acre after acre of the fertile coastal strip where most of Senegal's vegetables are ...