Re-Con Africa

26/03/2025

Users identifying as geologists, many of whom have since disappeared, are highly respected within the channel.

Many of them talked absolute rubbish and misled those looking to them for guidance but no word of caution from moderators could be found about taking advice from Discord geologists.

The Echo Chamber This is the second installment of our popular Discord Gods story, the first of which you can read here. Rob Parker March 24, 2025  A key component in Canadian oil company Reco…

28/02/2025

Slick Promotion Pumps ReconAfrica Stock

A sudden rise in ReconAfrica’s stock price at the end of January 2025, followed by a similarly steep and rapid decline, concerned a group of ReconAfrica investors. In stock discussion forums and private conversations, these investors claim the sudden stock price surge was possibly linked to the mysterious appearance of a high-resolution image.

https://savingokavangosuniquelife.blog/2025/02/27/discord-gods/ Our latest report on the tricks of ReconAfrica.

Part one. Slick Promotion Pumps ReconAfrica Stock Rob Parker, February 27, 2025 A sudden rise in ReconAfrica’s stock price at the end of January 2025, followed by a similarly steep and rapi…

14/02/2025

A convicted stock promotion charlatan was deeply involved in what appears to be a well orchestrated pump and dump scheme to increase the stock value of oil and gas wildcatter ReconAfrica in 2021.

This successful operation allowed early investors, and potentially company insiders, to profit generously off of a huge increase in the stock value of the company over the course of just a few months in 2021.

Did ReconAfrica promoters reference an “astrology” website operated by a recidivist stock offender in order to increase the company’s share value? Rob Parker Thursday, February 13, 2025 A con…

01/02/2025

ReconAfrica’s latest discovery reeks like a “week old mackerel left in the sun”.

For Immediate release:  To all media members  January 30, 2025 ReconAfrica’s latest discovery reeks like a “week old mackerel left in the sun”. In 2021 Canadian exploration co…

10/05/2024

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/okavango_2_1/?copy

Please sign and share.

This Avaaz campaign came as a result of our partnership with the University of Toronto's International Human Rights Program which exposed the Canadian company's crimes in Namibia.

ReconAfrica is ripping through a pristine wilderness in Namibia to find oil, but we can stop them together. Join the campaign now!

10/05/2024

ReconAfrica, a Canadian oil and gas company tried to silence me with a bribe and a job offer.

But my people are tired of corruption, and we will not be silent as this oil giant threatens us, our rights and pushes wildlife closer to extinction.

In June 2022, we joined the Economic and Social Justice Trust, an advocacy group fighting corruption and advocating for rights in Namibia, in a massive appeal against Minister Pohamba Shifeta's approval of ReconAfrica's exploitative activities, despite blatant violations of rights and laws.

But after two years, we still have NO ruling. Meanwhile ReconAfrica has continued to pillage and disembowel our land and our livelihoods -- completely unchecked.

Join our global call NOW to tell Minister Pohamba Shifeta to stop delaying a ruling and save the Okavango Delta! For its people, my people and its magnificent wildlife -- sign now and share with those you know!

MMuronga ThomasMMax Muyemburuko

ReconAfrica is ripping through a pristine wilderness in Namibia to find oil, but we can stop them together. Join the campaign now!

22/03/2024

https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-oil-kingmaker/

Over decades and continents, one Canadian lawyer has helped write laws for petrochemical states — then profited from them. Now his sites are set on Namibia, where a major scheme threatens one of the world’s greatest nature reserves

22/11/2023

We will not allow this to happen.

ReconAfrica is drilling for fossil fuel near the protected Okavango River Delta. So far, there’s been no oil, but there have been big profits.

07/09/2023

Okavango Delta, Sept. 7 — Communities and advocacy groups in Namibia have levelled serious allegations against Canadian oil driller ReconAfrica. Their complaint contends that the company has deceived both regulators and investors regarding its activities in the region. The accusations involve misrepresentation of interactions with local communities, non-compliance with laws, and the environmental threat posed by drilling activities in the Okavango Delta, a designated World Heritage Site.

The formal complaint implores regulatory bodies to launch an investigation into ReconAfrica’s alleged misrepresentation of its on-the-ground activities to investors, potentially leading to investment decisions made under false pretences. In the United States, making false statements to investors to induce stock purchases is unlawful, and the complaint underscores that significant investments were made in the company based on these purported misrepresentations.

ReconAfrica had assured investors of a ‘world-class’ environmental and social program, but farmers in the region claim that their lands were taken without consent, and the company allegedly disposed of drilling waste in unlined pits. An independent Parliamentary inquiry has also raised concerns about potential corruption related to ReconAfrica’s operations. Nevertheless, the company has consistently maintained to investors and regulators that it has adhered to all applicable laws. These alleged misrepresentations are believed to have contributed to the company’s remarkable valuation of nearly one billion dollars, all while failing to extract a single drop of oil.

The 27-page complaint goes further by calling for a suspension of trading in ReconAfrica’s stock while a comprehensive criminal investigation into the actions of the company’s leadership is conducted. The groups involved, who have successfully challenged ReconAfrica’s assertions in the past, assert that the claims made by the company to investors are untrue and do not align with the realities on the ground. Local leaders have purportedly faced detainment, surveillance, and harassment for their opposition to the project.

The submission, dated August 29, 2023, is meticulously documented and supported by an extensive array of facts. It has been submitted to various investigative bodies, including the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, the FBI’s Criminal Fraud Division, Germany’s financial fraud division known as BAFIN, and Namibian regulatory authorities.

Key Quotes from the Complaint’s Executive Summary:
“These assembled facts reveal that the company has bullied local and international critics, possibly paid off Namibian politicians, potentially polluted local fields and waterways, lied about having the necessary drilling permits to investors, illegally drilled inside wildlife reserves, illegally cleared roads within community-owned land, lied about drilling into the shallow watershed of two World Heritage properties, and was illegally in possession of the electronic communications of local leaders publicly opposed to their project.”

NDN Staffer Okavango Delta, Sept. 7 -- Communities and advocacy groups in Namibia have levelled

17/03/2023

Written complaint by the Economic and Social Justice Trust of Namibia to the Canadian High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa, on their dubious role in facilitating ReconAfrica’s oil and gas exploration while the Canadian company breaks laws and commits human rights violations.
Key take aways from the complaint:
● ReconAfrica contravened fundamental human rights in Namibia. Even though evidence of this was widely published, Canadian officials denied it in internal emails and continued to assist the company.
● Members of the Namibian police detained conservancy leader Max Muyemburuko and human rights activists, allegedly at the request of ReconAfrica, in 2022.
● The Canadian company is surveilling Namibians and Canadians who oppose the project. The company has shown it has access to private messages of conservancy leaders and activists.
● The company deprives Namibians of their right to information by using their influence to prevent damaging stories from being published and has repeatedly placed their content in local media disguised as ‘news’.
● ReconAfrica has denied two separate Namibian ministries access to the drill sites during the course of their duties.
● ReconAfrica threatens journalists, labour inspectors and media houses with frivolous litigation. ReconAfrica partners are forcing conservancies and community forest organisations to pay their legal costs.
● Canada lacks a mechanism to hold companies like ReconAfrica accountable, and the actions of the Trade Ministry illustrate that the office lacks the expertise and objectivity required to be responsible for human rights violations.
● Despite literally dozens of public statements,investor presentations, promotional videos and research reports that clearly state ReconAfrica’s target was natural gas that would require fracking, credulous Canadian officials claimed that it was ‘proven’ the company would not frack. The company’s presentations continue to declare they are targeting natural gas and leave the door open to fracking.

Written complaint by the Economic and Social Justice Trust of Namibia to the Canadian High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa, on their dubious role in facilitating ReconAfrica’s oil and gas exploration while the Canadian company breaks laws and commits human rights violations.

Key take aways from the complaint:

● ReconAfrica contravened fundamental human rights in Namibia. Even though evidence of this was widely published, Canadian officials denied it in internal emails and continued to assist the company.
● Members of the Namibian police detained conservancy leader Max Muyemburuko and human rights activists, allegedly at the request of ReconAfrica, in 2022.
● The Canadian company is surveilling Namibians and Canadians who oppose the project. The company has shown it has access to private messages of conservancy leaders and activists.
● The company deprives Namibians of their right to information by using their influence to prevent damaging stories from being published and has repeatedly placed their content in local media disguised as ‘news’.
● ReconAfrica has denied two separate Namibian ministries access to the drill sites during the course of their duties.
● ReconAfrica threatens journalists, labour inspectors and media houses with frivolous litigation. ReconAfrica partners are forcing conservancies and community forest organisations to pay their legal costs.
● Canada lacks a mechanism to hold companies like ReconAfrica accountable, and the actions of the Trade Ministry illustrate that the office lacks the expertise and objectivity required to be responsible for human rights violations.
● Despite literally dozens of public statements,investor presentations, promotional videos and research reports that clearly state ReconAfrica’s target was natural gas that would require fracking, credulous Canadian officials claimed that it was ‘proven’ the company would not frack. The company’s presentations continue to declare they are targeting natural gas and leave the door open to fracking.

23/01/2023

https://www.namibiansun.com/.../land-council-now-part-of...
Andreas Sinonge petitioned the High Court last year to have the land board be part of the court proceedings citing that the land being disputed falls within its jurisdiction. Furthermore, the land board is yet to consider ReconAfrica’s application for registration and ratification of the land rights. Thus, the outcome of the matter will have a direct impact on Recon’s application.
In the suit, Sinonge’s family claims the company illegally drilled on their land and in the process damaged it. ReconAfrica has denied the allegations.
The suit is also against ReconAfrica’s partner National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor), the minister of mines, the minister of land reform, the minister of environment and the Shambyu Traditional Authority.
The land, to which the family has customary rights, has been in the family for 53 years and has been used for residential and farming purposes.
In December 2020, ReconAfrica allegedly started exploration activities on the land.
“I did not agree or consent to such disregard of my rights and destruction of the natural environment which we have nurtured,” said Sinonge.
He said none of the respondents made contact with him or the family to ask for permission to carry out exploration activities on land.
“I have no other land to occupy with my family. My natural resources and the forest are decimated and the first respondent (ReconAfrica) has dug out our crop field and removed the topsoil to a place unknown to me and intends to drill further despite its activities being unlawful,” said Sinonge.
Sinonge wants the court to order ReconAfrica to restore the family land.
Yuri Perez Martinez, ReconAfrica’s deputy general manager has denied the allegations by Sinonge. He said the company has not disposed of his land or any other community member’s and the allegations are unfounded.
He said Sinonge, in December 2020, was aware that ReconAfrica was allocated a portion of communal land in the area of Mbabi in Kavango East by the Shambyu Traditional Authority.
According to him, they have met and fulfilled all the requirements for lawful exploration in Namibia.
Yesterday, Windhoek High Court Judge Eileen Rakow postponed the case to 28 February for status hearing.
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