Environment and Natural Resources minister Chirau Ali Mwakwere has issued a three week notice to all foreign mining companies to cede 35 per cent shareholding to locals or loose their mining rights. Mwakwere specifically singled out Base Titanium which operates in his Kwale County backyard threatening to revoke its mining lease over its demands that the new regulation should be applied according to the law which says it can not apply retrospectively...
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