Mali is suspending the granting of new artisanal mining permits to foreigners, after a couple of accidents in recent weeks left dozens dead.<\/p>\n
The collapse on February 15 of an artisanal gold mine\u00a0killed 43 people, mostly women, in the gold-rich Kayes region.<\/p>\n
On January 29, 13 artisanal miners, including women and three children, were killed\u00a0in southwest Mali\u00a0after a tunnel in which they were digging for gold flooded.<\/p>\n
In response to the deaths, Mali’s Council of Ministers decided at its weekly meeting on Wednesday to suspend the granting of artisanal mining permits “to persons of foreign nationality”, a statement said.<\/p>\n
It also approved the dismissal of administrative and security officials connected to the two recent accidents, the statement said.<\/p>\n
Mali is one of Africa’s top gold producers and home to industrial mines operated by international companies including Barrick Gold, B2Gold Corp, Resolute Mining\u00a0and Hummingbird Resources Plc.<\/p>\n
After seizing power in 2020 in a military coup, Mali’s leaders pledged to scrutinise the country’s mining sector so the state would benefit more from gold prices running at all-time highs.<\/p>\n
The result was a series of disputes with foreign firms including one with Barrick that remains unresolved.<\/p>\n
Mali’s industrial gold production\u00a0plunged 23%\u00a0year-over-year in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mali is suspending the granting of new artisanal mining permits to foreigners, after a couple of accidents in recent weeks left dozens dead. The collapse on February 15 of an artisanal gold mine\u00a0killed 43 people, mostly women, in the gold-rich Kayes region. On January 29, 13 artisanal miners, including women and three children, were killed\u00a0in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3028,27],"tags":[187,3846],"class_list":["post-15508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mining","category-west-africa","tag-mali","tag-mine-permits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}