More than 1,200 individuals in Guinea’s key gold-producing area have been arrested amid a crackdown on illegal mining, in accordance with a authorities assertion.
The arrests come after a ban on unregulated and clandestine mining within the northeastern gold-producing area of Siguiri took impact on November 2.
The 1,263 individuals arrested for alleged gold panning included residents of Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali, Togo, Niger, Ivory Coast and Ghana, in accordance with a joint assertion from the ministries of defence and safety, dated Saturday.
The crackdown on illegal gold mining has led to an unprecedented inflow of individuals from the Guinean border area.
Neighbouring Mali introduced on Saturday that it had taken in round 160,000 individuals expelled from Guinea because the begin of those operations, warning of a “humanitarian emergency”.
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