Elie Kabore
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) 2022 report on Senegal was published in December 2023. Taking into account the first half of 2022, the...
Cyanide pollution in the Kayes region: when gold mining rhymes with...
In Mali, the use of cyanide, mercury and dredges for gold extraction, under the impotent or complicit gaze of the technical services responsible, is...
Cameroon: The government bans gold panning at depths of over 30...
In a press release signed on 22 December 2023, the Cameroonian Ministry of Mines banned all artisanal and semi-mechanised mining activities beyond a depth...
