Sub-Saharan Africa still holds the prospect of increasing political stability and further economic liberalisation for potential mining investors, despite the current problems experienced in the Democractic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe, delegates were told at the Investing in African Mining Conference (Indaba 2001) in Cape Town last week.Tara O'Connor, African regional manager for UK-based consultancy group Control Risks, said that the trend in the region towards full democracy seen in the last decade was still in effect. "Sometimes this is forced through by bodies such as the IMF, but overall there is a drive for democracy," she said.
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