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Over 100 Dead As Gold Miners Clash In Chad

May 31, 2022 4:28 am

No fewer than 100 people have been confirmed dead following clashes between gold miners in northern Chad, Defence Minister General Daoud Yaya Brahim have disclosed.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that violence broke out on May 23 at Kouri Bougoudi near the Libyan border, sparked by a ‘mundane dispute between two people which degenerated’, he noted adding that the toll was “around 100 dead and at least 40 wounded.’

The clashes occurred in the rugged Tibesti Mountains in the central Sahara, some 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) from the Chadian capital N’Djamena.

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Federal Govt Sensitises Artisanal Miners In Zamfara

February 10, 2020 3:46 am

The Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development has said that the country was losing 80 percent of revenue that would have accrued from the solid minerals sector, to illegal mining.

Mr Abunuma Samuel, the ministry’s Plan Officer, stated this while speaking to newsmen in Maru, Talata-Mafara Local Government in Zamfara, on Sunday.

Samuel spoke to newsmen after sensitising artisanal miners in Maru.

The federal government had, in April 2019, announced a ban on mining in Zamfara and its environs.

The government said that the ban was part of measures to address the security challenges in the state.

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Illegal miners at Glencore in Congo refuses to quit

July 2, 2019 8:37 am

A landslide last Thursday at the Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) concession, majority-owned by a subsidiary of Glencore, killed 43 people and led Democratic Republic of Congo’s government to promise to remove the miners.

The army’s inspector general, General John Numbi, told Reuters on Monday that reconnaissance teams were on the ground and an operation to clear the estimated 2,000 miners in the would begin on Tuesday.

Reached by telephone, Joseph Yav, chief of staff to the provincial governor, said police had begun a process of voluntary closures of illegal trading houses around the mine and would call on the army …