By ROSE ATHUMANI
African governments have been asked to make right decision at the right time with regard to exploration and extraction in the mining, oil and gas sectors in order to reap benefits.
The remarks were made today by George Lugalambi, a media capacity development officer, from the Natural Resource Governance Institute, during a regional media training workshop on mining, oil and gas sectors.
The two-week practical oriented training held in Tanzania aimed at strengthening media capacity on covering issues of the booming extractive sectors in African continent.
Mr Lugalambi stressed on the key decisions that a government must get right to benefit from more from its natural resources, which includes making the decision at the right time and negotiating a good deal to get desirable benefits for the development of that particular country.
The 13-day media workshop has brought together 24 journalists Uganda, Ghana and hosts Tanzania who will interact with different experts in the field to deepen their knowledge of extractive industry, governance issues and to enhance skills essential for effective coverage of the oil, gas and mining sector.
The program is being sponsored by the NRGI and managed in partnership the Penplusbytes of Ghana and the Journalists Environmental Association of Tanzania (JEAT) and the African Center for Media Excellence of Uganda.
All three are involved in the oil, mining and gas industries with Ghana having been in the industry much longer than both Tanzania and Uganda
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