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Ownership & contracts — who's behind the licences

Which jurisdictions publish a public beneficial-ownership register and where mining contracts are disclosed. Read live from /api/v1/bo-contracts.json. The two aggregators (ResourceContracts CC BY-SA 4.0, OpenOwnership CC BY 4.0) carry most of it under reusable licences; Guinea, Liberia and DRC also run national portals.

Jurisdiction interest disclosure.

Afrimintel's Editor-in-Chief holds two positions in the Great Lakes region: Honorary Consul of Rwanda in Mauritius, and Chairman of MUA Insurance Rwanda. Neither role involves mining, mineral assets, or any company appearing in this layer, and neither carries any interest in the outcome of any record in it. They are disclosed here because this layer carries records on jurisdictions to which those positions relate, which makes them material to a reader assessing those records. Coverage and treatment of these jurisdictions are on the same terms as every other jurisdiction; the positions constrain who Afrimintel transacts with, not what it publishes. See /methodology/independence/ §7. Independence Policy §7.

Beneficial ownership and mining-contract availability — rendered at build time from /api/v1/bo-contracts.json (dataset v2.137.63, as of 2026-08-18). Every figure carries the state, source and date the feed carries. This static table is replaced by the interactive one when scripts run.
JurisdictionBO registerExtractive BO publicContracts repositoryContractsLicence
BotswanaTruenot confirmedFalsenot statedOpenOwnership — CC BY 4.0
Burkina FasoFalsenot confirmedTrue50ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0
CameroonFalsenot confirmedTrue17ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0
ChadFalsenot confirmedTrue66ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0
DRCTrueconfirmedTrue347ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0; Congo Mines licence not stated
GabonFalsenot confirmedTrue32ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0
GhanaTrueconfirmedTrue75ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0; OpenOwnership — CC BY 4.0
GuineaFalsenot confirmedTrue114ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0 (portal CC BY-SA 4.0)
Côte d'IvoireFalsenot confirmedTrue17ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0
LiberiaFalsenot confirmedTrue40ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0 (LEITI licence not stated)
MadagascarFalsenot confirmedTrue7ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0
MalawiTruenot confirmedFalsenot statedOpenOwnership — CC BY 4.0
MaliFalsenot confirmedTrue79ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0
MauritaniaFalsenot confirmedTrue55ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0
MozambiqueFalsenot confirmedTrue40ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0
NamibiaTruenot confirmedFalsenot statedOpenOwnership — CC BY 4.0
NigerFalsenot confirmedTrue12ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0
NigeriaTrueconfirmedTrue9ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0; OpenOwnership — CC BY 4.0
Republic of the CongoFalsenot confirmedTrue70ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0
SenegalTrueconfirmedTrue101ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0; OpenOwnership — CC BY 4.0
Sierra LeoneFalsenot confirmedTrue21ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0
South AfricaTruenot confirmedFalsenot statedOpenOwnership — CC BY 4.0
TanzaniaTrueconfirmedTrue13ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0; OpenOwnership — CC BY 4.0
ZambiaTrueconfirmedTrue73ResourceContracts.org — CC BY-SA 4.0; OpenOwnership — CC BY 4.0
ZimbabweFalsenot confirmedFalsenot statedlicence not stated
RwandaFalsenot confirmedFalsenot statedRDB public register
Central African RepublicFalsenot confirmedTrue28ResourceContracts — CC BY-SA 4.0
AngolaFalsenot confirmedTrue11ResourceContracts — CC BY-SA 4.0
EgyptFalsenot confirmedTrue2ResourceContracts — CC BY-SA 4.0
AlgeriaFalsenot confirmedFalsenot statedn/a
BurundiFalsenot confirmedFalsenot statedn/a
DjiboutiFalsenot confirmedFalsenot statedn/a
EritreaFalsenot confirmedFalsenot statedn/a
EthiopiaFalsenot confirmedFalsenot statedn/a
KenyaFalsenot confirmedFalsenot statedn/a
LibyaFalsenot confirmedFalsenot statedn/a
MoroccoFalsenot confirmedFalsenot statedn/a
SomaliaFalsenot confirmedFalsenot statedn/a
SudanFalsenot confirmedFalsenot statedn/a
UgandaFalsenot confirmedFalsenot statedn/a