Burkina Faso: Minister Simon Pierre Boussim, denies the granting of a mine to the Russian group wagner
The Burkinabe Minister in charge of mines, Simon Pierre Boussim denied Tuesday, in Ouagadougou, the granting of a mine to the Russian private security group in exchange for its services in the fight against terrorism, as said Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo in Washington during the US-Africa summit.”We did not grant a permit to a Russian company in southern Burkina. On the other hand, there was a Council of Ministers that officially granted an operating permit to an industrial mine called Nordgold for the exploitation of Yimiougou ore located in the commune of Korsimoro, in the Centre-Nord region, “said the Minister on the sidelines of a meeting on Tuesday with civil society.The Burkinabe Minister in charge of mines said that the Russian mining company Nordgold, which will operate the Yimiougou mine in the Centre-North of the country, has existed in Burkina Faso for about ten years and already operates three gold mines in Burkina Faso.The minister’s remarks were supported by Jonas Hien, Permanent Secretary of Civil Society on behalf of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), who told the press after the meeting that the Burkinabe mining administration has brought all the documentation on Russian mining companies to Burkina Faso and that “there has been no clandestine granting of gold mines to Wagner in the south of the country”.
“Today, Russian mercenaries are on our northern border. Burkina Faso has now reached an arrangement with Mali for the Wagner forces present in that country to intervene in Burkina Faso,” Nana Akufo-Addo said, adding that “a mine inOuagadougou, as well as several observers and pan-Africanists from various backgrounds, had reacted strongly to this exit of the Ghanaian President who can not even solve the problems of the social situation in his own country, by summoning the ambassador of Ghana to Burkina Faso Boniface Gambila Adagbila to an “urgent audience” on Friday, and recalling the same day his ambassador in Accra, General Pingrenoma Zagré for “consultation”. southern Burkina Faso” was awarded to the Wagner group “as payment” for its services.
According to the minutes of the hearing of the Ghanaian diplomat published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Burkina Faso “the Ambassador of Ghana indicated that this exit of his President was not intended to condemn Burkina Faso, nor to sow doubt in the minds, but the intention was above all to attract the attention of partners in order to arouse great interest in Burkina Faso”.
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