Kenya seeks outside view on law requiring mineral firms to use local staff, goods

• Autores: Industrial Minerals
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 604, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Septiembre)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Legislation to increase the share of jobs and financial benefit taken by domestic interests is once again being considered by the Kenyan parliament.

    The senate in the East African country of Kenya is consulting on a proposed law that would require international mining companies to hire Kenya-based staff and to source supplies locally, Ramadhan Rajab reports.

    The Local Content Bill was formally reintroduced to the Senate this year. An earlier draft was tabled in 2016, but debates on the issue were interrupted by the country’s general election in 2017.

    The Kenyan initiative is being closely watched by other governments in East Africa. Uganda began to draft a similar law following a visit by parliamentarians from that country to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, in March.