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In the province of Poni, Yesterday afternoon, a strong explosion occurred on the market square of the gold panning site of Gomgombiro », recount Today in Faso. It is about fifteen kilometers from Gaoua, in the south-west region.
There are about sixty dead. ” Several dozen injured and enormous material damage. According to early reports, details the Burkinabè information site, the explosion caused by explosives left the galleries of the gold panning site before hitting the market where a large quantity of explosives was exposed. A fire immediately spread on the market before touching the chemicals that were there.
Wakat Séra ensures for his part that at the CHR, « the health center, a race against time is played out with the arrival of injured people… and that the emergency room is saturated. »
It’s a high risk gold rush
The World Africa recalls that ” On Friday, two people were killed in a landslide at an artisanal gold site in the southern village of Kolo. Despite the ban on gold panning, the authorities are struggling to control uncontrolled gold mininganalyzes the daily. Although declining, gold production has become in a dozen years the first export product of Burkina Faso, whose main export product was previously cotton. The official gold sector has some 15,000 direct jobs and 50,000 indirect jobs. But the artisanal sub-sector, also called gold panning, employs up to one and a half million people, and generates an additional 10 tonnes of gold each year. »
A new transition charter adopted in Mali
« Will realism prevail? » wonders The country, whereas yesterday the CNT voted the project of revision of this charter. It can be extended from 6 months to 5 years. ” Mali lives under economic and diplomatic embargo recalls the newspaper, who judges that in fact, it is the people of Mali who pay the heaviest price. »
The “parliamentarians” have carefully avoided putting their feet in the dish of the angry subject believes the country. They contented themselves with a sibylline formula which sets the end of the transition to the organization of the next presidential election without giving a precise deadline. Yet that was the whole point of this parliamentary session. Especially since ECOWAS, which categorically rejected the five-year deadline resulting from the National Refoundation Conference, continues to maintain the pressure for a “reasonable” transition period. ».
Assimi Goïta can stay in power until 2027
« Among the points revised in the transition charter, the thorniest is that which fixes its duration, valued Young Africa. There is a clear desire to confiscate power, tance Modibo Soumaré, president of the Exchange Framework for a Successful Transition, which brings together dozens of political parties. Because of this, we are in crisis. The country has been under embargo for forty days! By choosing to prolong the transition, we ignore the suffering of the Malian people. »
The text provides for the abolition of the post of vice-president – vacant since it is no longer occupied by Colonel Assimi Goïta, and also an increase in the number of members of the government and the CNT. But for Modibo Soumaré, whose platform will no longer recognize the authorities from March 25, “25, 30, 40 ministers… That’s not the question! The priority is to make concrete proposals to ECOWAS to have the sanctions lifted. »
The mediator of the West African organization, Goodluck Jonathan, is expected the day after tomorrow in Bamako.