EVENTS COVERAGE

The road to nowhere

IT IS rare that anyone in a safe country like Canada or Australia gets to see sovereign risk in the raw. Delegates to an Africa/Australia mining conference in Perth last September got just such an opportunity when lending a sympathetic ear to the tale of woe and uncertainty told by Sub-Sahara Resources about its work, of a non performing nature, in Eritrea. <b>By Tim Treadgold</b>*