The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative of Burkina Faso (EITI-BF) is holding a public conference on "Women and EITI" in Koudougou on 14 December 2023, exclusively for women from the Centre West region.This activity is part of the dissemination of...

Cameroon's Acting Minister of Mines, Industry and Technological Development, Fuh Calistus, visited the Colomine gold mine on Tuesday 12 December 2023. This official visit is part of the launch of the second phase of the Carbon-in-Leach project, an innovative...

The various Mining Codes adopted by Burkina Faso provide a framework for the closure and rehabilitation of mining sites. Indeed, when mining companies come to the end of their operations, they are obliged to rehabilitate the areas where they...

The hearing of the fine coal trial continued on Tuesday 12 December 2023 at the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Ouaga I, with the appearance of two public officials accused of forgery.One of the agents who answered the prosecutor's...

Energie Plus company is to build a 50 MWp solar power plant in Komsilga (Kadiogo province, Centre region). This solar power plant construction project is the result of the signing of an agreement between the Minister of Energy, Mines...

After a time extension on the closing plenary session of the 28th UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP 28), which took place from 30 November to 12 December 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, countries approved...

Fortuna Silver Mines has completed the purchase of the Diamba mine in Senegal in September 2023. With this latest acquisition, Canadian mining company Fortuna Silver Mines, based in Vancouver, is now present in 03 West African countries: Burkina Faso,...

The Burkina Faso Bureau of Mines and Geology (Bureau des Mines et de la Géologie du Burkina Faso - BUMIGEB) gave its version of events on Friday 8 December 2023 in the fine coal trial. Its representative (a chemical...

Côte d'Ivoire's Minister of Mines, Petroleum and Energy, Mamadou Sangafowa-Coulibaly, held a working session with the country's traditional chiefs on Friday 08 December 2023 at the Chamber of Kings and Traditional Chiefs in Yamoussoukro. According to a press release...

The President of the National Human Rights Commission (Commission nationale des droits humains - CNDH), Gonta Alida Henriette DA, received a delegation from the Burkina Faso Mining Women's Association (l’Association des Femmes du Secteur Minier du Burkina Faso -...