Mining tenure — who publishes the register

Three registers are shown but were never fetched — Kenya (anti-scraping clause), Côte d'Ivoire SODEMI (sold commercially) and South Africa SAMRAD (non-commercial-use clause). Most African cadastres run on the same Landfolio map-portal stack with no open-data licence; the notable exception is Nigeria's downloadable Valid Mineral Titles spreadsheet. No count is asserted where the register did not state one — trade-press totals were deliberately not adopted.

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.