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Mali: concerns about the environmental impact of lithium mining
In 2024, Leo-Lithium company will begin producing lithium in Mali, at Galamina in the Bougouni region. A first experience for the country. Experts are...
Côte d’Ivoire: Lower oil production in 2021
Based on data reported by PETROCI, oil production reached 8,773,263 bbl in 2021, compared with 10,875,237 bbl in 2020. These statistics from the 2023...
Burkina Faso-World Bank: Solar energy at the heart of discussions
On Friday 12 January 2024, the Minister for Energy, Mines and Quarries, Yacouba Zabré Gouba, was granted an audience with the World Bank's Senior...
Gabon: REMINAC to mine iron from Baniaka
On Monday 8 January 2024 in Libreville, after 12 years of waiting, the Minister of Mines, Hervé Patrick Opiangah, presented the Managing Director of...
Publication of an investigative guide entitled “Investigative journalism: a guide to investigating the Local...
Despite a favourable legal framework in several African countries in favour of Local Development Mining Funds, voices are being raised to denounce either the...
Sanbrado mine in Burkina Faso: Production forecasts achieved with 7,055 tonnes in 2023
West African Resources, which operates the Sanbrado mine, announced in a press release issued on Tuesday 9 January 2024 that it produced 7,055 tonnes...
Extractive sector: Côte d’Ivoire to collect more than 435 billion FCFA by 2021
According to the 2021 report of the Côte d'Ivoire Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI-CI), the extractive sector contributed 435.95 billion FCFA to the national...
#Retromines2023: The Local Development Mining Fund has generated 48 billion FCFA in 2022
Over the course of 2022, a total of 48.006 billion FCFA was mobilised under the Local Development Mining Fund (LDMF) for the benefit of...
Mauritania: Major gas project boosts economic growth
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mauritania's economic growth will accelerate between now and 2025. Thanks to the start-up of the Grand Tortue...
Senegal: 110 billion FCFA generated by the extractive sector in the first half of...
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) 2022 report on Senegal was published in December 2023. Taking into account the first half of 2022, the...
