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5 days ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Bate Felix |Anaït Miridzhanian
DAKAR (Reuters) - Australia's Woodside Energy has filed a request for international arbitration with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) given the lack of resolution on certain matters with Senegal, a spokesperson...
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2 weeks ago | 
mining.com | Anaït Miridzhanian
A Malian court hearing on whether to place Barrick Mining’s Loulo-Gounkoto mining complex under provisional administration has been postponed to June 2, the presiding judge said on Thursday. It is the second postponement after Mali’s government made a request to the court to appoint a provisional administrator who could restart mining operations. Judge Mahamoud Tibou Koita told Reuters that the state had requested the adjournment until June 2.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailydispatch.co.za | Anaït Miridzhanian
A Malian woman holds a poster of Assimi Goita, the junta leader of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP) who seized power after coups in 2020 and 2021. File photo. Mali's military government announced on Tuesday that it had dissolved all political parties, approving a recommendation publicised last month that spurred unprecedented protests in the capital, Bamako.
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3 weeks ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Nilutpal Timsina |Sonia Rolley |Anaït Miridzhanian
14 May 2025 - 16:45 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Members of the M23 rebel group in Goma, North Kivu province in eastern DRC. An escalation of fighting in the region has strained the nation's public finances, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. File photo.
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3 weeks ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Anaït Miridzhanian
14 May 2025 - 11:45 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. A Malian woman holds a poster of Assimi Goita, the junta leader of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP) who seized power after coups in 2020 and 2021. File photo.
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1 month ago | 
mining.com | Anaït Miridzhanian
At least 10 people were killed in a gold mine collapse in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the rebel-appointed governor of South Kivu province said on Thursday. M23 rebels have seized east Congo’s two biggest cities since January in an escalation of a long-running conflict rooted in the spillover into Congo of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide and the struggle for control of Congo’s vast mineral resources.
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1 month ago | 
mining.com | Anaït Miridzhanian
Reuters | April 23, 2025 | 9:41 am Top Companies Africa Gold Ghana and Gold Fields have reached an agreement on a transitional plan for Damang mine, the West African country’s presidency said on Wednesday. Last week, Ghana assumed operational control of the mine after it rejected an application from the South African company to renew its lease, breaking a tradition of automatically renewing licenses.
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1 month ago | 
mining.com | Anaït Miridzhanian |Robbie Corey-Boulet
Ghana has ordered foreigners to exit its gold trading market by the end of the month, a new government body said on Monday, as the West African country looks to streamline gold purchases from small-scale miners, increase earnings and reduce smuggling. Africa’s leading gold producer is shifting away from a system in which local and foreign companies with export licenses can buy and export gold from artisanal or small-scale mining.
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2 months ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Anaït Miridzhanian
18 March 2025 - 08:01 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has repeatedly denied backing M23 rebels but says the country will do everything necessary to defend itself from Hutu militants in the DRC, 30 years after the 1994 genocide.
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2 months ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Anaït Miridzhanian
Nairobi — Belgium and Rwanda announced the expulsion of each other’s diplomats, as relations deteriorated over allegations about their respective roles in the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Kigali said it was severing diplomatic relations and giving Belgian diplomats 48 hours to leave the east African country, accusing Brussels of “using lies and manipulation to secure an unjustified hostile opinion of Rwanda”.
