African Minerals

Contact details

African Minerals Limited

5 Stratton Street

London W1J 8LA

People

• Graham Foyle-Twining, Global head of Human Resources and Sustainable Development
• Mike Jones

Lobbying and PR firms

• Tavistock Communications - Jos Simson / Nuala Gallagher

External resources

• Human Rights Watch, 'Whose Development? Human Rights Abuses in Sierra Leone’s Mining Boom'

This 96-page report documents how the government and London-based African Minerals Limited forcibly relocated hundreds of families from verdant slopes to a flat, arid area in Tonkolili District. As a result, residents lost their ability to cultivate crops and engage in income generating activities that once sustained them. Police carried out a bloody crackdown in the town of Bumbuna in April 2012 to quell a protest by workers who went on strike after being barred from forming a union of their own choosing. <ref> Whose Development?, Human Rights Watch,

• African Minerals, Emailed Statement from African Minerals in response to Human Rights Watch Report, undated.