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            <title><![CDATA[Mali to Introduce Special Mining Brigade to Curb Illegal Output]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diakaridia Dembele]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:16:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mali Says State Working on Resuming Output at Barrick Gold Mine]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diakaridia Dembele]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:02:48 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mali to Take Control of Key Barrick Gold Mine for Six Months]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katarina Hoije]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A UNESCO-Protected Site in Mali Is Becoming a Burden for Locals]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Known for its mud-brick architecture, the town of Djenné is struggling to attract tourists and maintain buildings that have been damaged by floods.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diakaridia Dembele]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:00:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mali Court Postpones Ruling on Barrick Gold Mine to June 5]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katarina Hoije]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:51:04 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A dumper truck collects gold bearing rock ore from the digging floor of the Gounkoto open pit gold mine, part of the Loulo-Gounkoto mine complex, operated by Randgold Resources Ltd. in Gounkoto, Mali, on Friday, Nov. 1, 2013. Randgold Resources Ltd., a producer of the precious metal in Africa, said there are opportunities to acquire mines on the continent as the biggest companies in the industry scale back operations in the face of lower prices.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[West African Juntas’ Import Levy Ends Duty-Free Regional Access]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diakaridia Dembele]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:58:03 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A truck from Mali leaves after loading goods in the Industrial area near Abidjan on Jan. 30, 2025, a day after Junta-lead Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger officially left the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso Quit Organization to Promote French]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kamailoudini Tagba]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:04:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mali to Resume Mining Permits Suspended More Than Two Years Ago]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 12:56:13 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A dumper truck moves excavated rock ore from the digging floor of the Gounkoto open pit mine, part of the Loulo-Gounkoto gold mining complex operated by Randgold Resources Ltd., to the Loulo production plant in Gounkoto, Mali, on Friday, Nov. 1, 2013. Randgold Resources Ltd., a producer of the precious metal in Africa, said there are opportunities to acquire mines on the continent as the biggest companies in the industry scale back operations in the face of lower prices.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mali Suspends Artisanal Gold Mining Permits to Foreigners After Deadly Mine Collapse]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-05/mali-suspends-artisanal-gold-mining-permits-to-foreigners-after-mine-collapse</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:14:43 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>An artisanal gold mine in Danga after a landslide killed at least 10 people and left many others missing, on Jan. 31, 2025.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mali Retrieves 49 Bodies After Artisanal Gold Mine Collapsed]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diakaridia Dembele]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:34:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Africa’s Top Cotton Grower Readies for EU Rules With Green Push]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diakaridia Dembele]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:14:53 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mali Starts Taxes on Mobile-Phone Use to Fund Terrorist Fight]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diakaridia Dembele]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:05:34 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A general view of the central market of Bamako on May 27, 2021. - Mali&apos;s interim president and premier have been released, a military official said on May 27, three days after they were detained and stripped of their powers in what appeared to be the country&apos;s second coup in nine months. (Photo by Michele Cattani / AFP) (Photo by MICHELE CATTANI/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Barrick and Mali Resume Talks on Ending Dispute Over Gold Mine]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diakaridia Dembele]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 10:24:04 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The standoff compelled Barick to halt operations at its Loulo-Gounkoto mine in Mali. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mali to Get $1.2 Billion From Miners After Talks]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-11/mali-to-get-1-2-billion-payment-from-miners-after-talks</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diakaridia Dembele]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 14:07:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allied Gold Gets Mali’s Go-Ahead for New Project Near Sadiola]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diakaridia Dembele]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:48:27 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[West African Juntas Dismiss Delaying Exit From Regional Bloc]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diakaridia Dembele]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:08:47 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Colonel Assimi Goita, president of the CNSP (National Committee for the Salvation of the People), arrives at the funeral of former Mali President General Moussa Traore in Bamako on September 18, 2020. - Mali held a state funeral for former Mali president Moussa Traore on September 18, 2020, attended by the head of the ruling military junta and other former leaders of the Sahel state, according to AFP journalists. Traore, who ruled Mali for 22 years before being deposed in a 1991 coup, died at age 83 in the capital Bamako on September 15, 2020. (Photo by MICHELE CATTANI / AFP) (Photo by MICHELE CATTANI/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mali Junta Dismisses Government After Criticism of Military Rule]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diakaridia Dembele]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:47:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mali and Chinese Company to Build Explosives Plant, ORTM Says]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diakaridia Dembele]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:10:26 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Last UN Mission in Mali to Pack Out as 11-Year-Old Deployment Ends]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:44:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mali Threatens to Let Barrick Mine Permit Lapse Over Dispute]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katarina Hoije]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:15:47 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Gold bearing rock and iron ore moves along conveyor belts at the Loulo-Gounkoto mine complex in Loulo, Mali.</media:description>
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