{"id":1677,"date":"2024-12-21T12:36:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T20:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2024-12-27T14:47:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T22:47:27","slug":"malawi-mali-demanding-unpaid-taxes-royalties-from-multinationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/malawi-mali-demanding-unpaid-taxes-royalties-from-multinationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi and Mali Demand Unpaid Taxes and Royalties from Multinationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC news recently reported that the governments of Malawi and Mali are demanding hundreds of billions of dollars from U.S.- and Australia-based multinationals to compensate for unpaid taxes and royalties over the past 10 years. Charles Gitonga and Andre Lombard report that the Malawi government has accused Colombia Gem House, U.S.-based gemstone company, of not paying fairly for rubies exported over the last 10 years. The government is also demanding $4 billion from French gas giant TotalEnergies in unpaid revenue from an oil storage deal, and $9.5 million from Turkish tobacco firm Star Agritech, said Attorney General Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda. Over the past few weeks, Mali&#8217;s military junta has issued an international arrest warrant for Canadian mining firm Barrick Gold&#8217;s chief executive officer, alleging the company owes the West African state $500 million.<\/p>\n<p>While these demands are allegations not yet decided by courts, the demands reflect a growing discontent with the widespread &#8220;looting of Africa&#8221; that has been well documented by many investigators and authors over the past several decades. Books by Tom Burgis &#8220;The Looting Machine&#8221; and Patrick Bond &#8220;Looting Africa&#8221; describe how this looting process has long been systemic, and represents an enormous theft of resources from the Global South.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 eeiVGB\" data-component=\"headline-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-518485e5-0 bWszMR\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cq8qzyv0pjjo\">Malawi seeks billions of dollars from US firm over ruby sales, BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC news recently reported that the governments of Malawi and Mali are demanding hundreds of billions of dollars from U.S.- and Australia-based multinationals to compensate for unpaid taxes and royalties over the past 10 years. Charles Gitonga and Andre Lombard report that the Malawi government has accused Colombia Gem House, U.S.-based gemstone company, of not paying fairly for rubies exported over the last 10 years. The government is also demanding $4 billion from French gas giant TotalEnergies in unpaid revenue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[53,102,144,158,82,81,54,110,93,84],"media_type_reference":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-theft","category-tax-evasion","tag-africa","tag-equity","tag-exploitation","tag-extraction","tag-fair-taxation","tag-global-health","tag-global-health-justice","tag-global-south","tag-international-responsibility","tag-resource-mobilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"media_type_reference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type_reference?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}