The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth-Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) believes that the African Mining Vision (AMV)...only favours foreign investors to the detriment of the African continent and does not address critical livelihood concerns of local artisans...At the meeting, participants...observed that...African governments and national elites have monopolised the relatively minor profits that are left over from what foreign companies exploit, while ordinary people remain joblessness, and poor, and mining-related environmental disasters continue in their communities...Godwin Ojo, ERA/FoEN Executive Director...[said] “The policy must address key principles like prior informed consent of mining communities in relation to the commencement of mining operations; prompt, adequate and fair compensation for loss of means of livelihood; protection from negative environmental impacts, and the effective support for communities to participate in mining- related economic activities.”