Media reports from East Africa on Saturday claimed that a gold mine partly owned by Canadian company Nevsun Resources NYSE:NSU, TSX:NSU was hit by Ethiopian fighter jets.
The plaintiffs claimed they and more than 1,000 others had been conscripted through Eritrea’s military service into forced labour to construct Nevsun’s Bisha gold, copper and zinc mine in the ...
Ethiopian jets attack Canadian gold mine in Eritrea. Andrew Topf. Ethiopian jets have bombed the Bisha gold mine in Eritrea, that is majority-owned by Vancouver-based mining company Nevsun Resources NYSE:NSU, TSX:NSU , according to media reports from the East African region on Saturday.
Ethiopian Air Force Jets Attack key targets Canadian Gold Mine in Eritrea In Eritrea. The Ethiopian Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tewolde Mulugeta, rejected to comment such reports, while Ethiopian military sources confirmed to the media.
The Canadian company co-owns the giant copper, zinc and gold mine in the impoverished East African country in partnership with the state-owned Eritrean National Mining Corporation.
This peaked at $1.2 billion in 2012, when gold prices were at an all-time high. That year, al Qaeda-linked groups took over northern Mali but gold operations were uns hed as most mines are in ...
Thomas Mukoya / Reuters Trucks ferry excavated gold, copper and zinc ore from the main mining pit at the Bisha Mining Share Company in Eritrea, operated by Canadian company Nevsun Resources, on ...
After Wednesday& 39;s attack Semafo said its Boungou mine site remained secured, but it suspended operations there. It is a dilemma for miners. The region is seen as the gold industry& 39;s final frontier ...
The Canadian company co-owns the giant copper, zinc and gold mine in the impoverished East African country in partnership with the state-owned Eritrean National Mining Corporation.
At least 37 civilians are dead and more than 60 are wounded after gunmen attacked a convoy of local employees working for the Canadian gold mining company Semafo in Burkina Faso on Wednesday.
An ambush on a convoy transporting employees of a Canadian mining company in Burkina Faso kills 37, in the country& 39;s deadliest attack in nearly five years as the military struggles to contain ...
Benoit Desormeaux, CEO of the Canadian gold miner Semafo, comforts Fulgence Ilboudo, an injured victim of the attack on a road leading to the Boungou mine, while visiting the survivors at the ...
The case was first filed in 2014 by former mine workers Gize Yebeyo Araya, Kesete Tekle Fshazion and Mihretab Yemane Tekle. The trio of Eritrean refugees alleged that Nevsun was responsible for benefiting from human rights abuses including slavery, forced labour, torture and crimes against humanity during construction of its copper and gold mine in Eritrea.
MONTREAL — An attack on employees of Quebec gold producer Semafo Inc. in Burkina Faso has left 37 people dead and 60 injured. The attack occurred about 40 kilometres from the Boungou mine – one of the two sites operated by the company in the West African country – when a convoy of five buses accompanied by a military escort was ambushed.
Ambush On Canadian-Owned Mine In Africa Leaves Dozens Dead, Missing The attack killed at least 37 people and wounded 60 in Burkina Faso.
Over 1,000 people have been killed in Burkina Faso since 2016 and nearly 500,000 more have fled their homes, mainly this year. In this time, there have been dozens of attacks on industrial and small-scale mining operations. It is an acute dilemma for miners. The region is seen as the gold industry’s final frontier, with large untapped reserves.
Ambush On Canadian-Owned Mine In Africa Leaves Dozens Dead, Missing The attack killed at least 37 people and wounded 60 in Burkina Faso.
The Canadian government has denounced the attack in the West African country. “Canada condemns today’s attack against a convoy of workers of the Canadian mining company SEMAFO, which also targeted security forces protecting them,” Angela Savard, spokesperson for Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, told CBC News.
An ambush on a convoy transporting employees of a Canadian mining company in Burkina Faso kills 37, in the country& 39;s deadliest attack in nearly five years as the military struggles to contain ...
MONTREAL — An attack on employees of Quebec gold producer Semafo Inc. in Burkina Faso has left 37 people dead and 60 injured. The attack occurred about 40 kilometres from the Boungou mine – one of the two sites operated by the company in the West African country – when a convoy of five buses accompanied by a military escort was ambushed.
"The only thing that would shift the perception among gold miners that exposure to this insecurity is a risk worth taking is a direct attack on a mine site – an unlikely prospect," said Eric ...
The gold mine in Boungou has come under attack before. Eleven people were killed in two separate ambushes in 2018. The first ambush, in August 2018, killed six people, including five gendarmes. After the attack, Semafo increased security at the Boungou mine.
In 2018, Canadian companies had mining assets in 100 countries abroad, valued at $174.4 billion.This made up two-thirds of total Canadian mining assets. Among the 100 countries was Eritrea, where ...
Its contents were explosive: Human Rights Watch claimed a Canadian-owned mine in Eritrea had been built partly by de facto slaves. Department officials were already well-acquainted with the mine’s majority owner, Vancouver-based Nevsun Resources, and certainly its mine, Bisha, lo ed in the dusty interior of the North African nation.
"The only thing that would shift the perception among gold miners that exposure to this insecurity is a risk worth taking is a direct attack on a mine site – an unlikely prospect," said Eric ...
Unnamed mine worker He died of heat exhaustion and dehydration at Nevsun’s Bisha Mine in Eritrea date unknown . His death is the subject of a Canadian lawsuit against BC’s Nevsun Resources.
Gunmen in Burkina Faso Attack Canadian Mining Company Convoy, Killing 37 The ambush, which also wounded 60 people, was the third deadly attack on the Semafo mining company in 15 months. By Ian Austen
The lawsuit against Nevsun, Nevsun vs. Araya, alleges that the company was complicit in the use of forced labour by a sub-contractor at its Bisha copper-zinc mine in Eritrea. Nevsun, which was acquired in late 2018 by Zijin Mining Group, denies the allegations.
At least 47 civilians were killed and more than 60 wounded when gunmen ambushed a convoy transporting workers of Canadian gold miner Semafo in eastern Burkin...
Sanou Bakary, 36, who was injured during an attack on a road leading to the Boungou mine, operated by Canadian gold miner Semafo, lies in a hospital bed in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Friday.
Attack on Canadian miner in Burkina Faso threatens gold’s final frontier. David Lewis, Helen Reid, ... The top investor in Semafo said risk and gold mining went hand-in-hand, and extra security ...
Montreal-based gold miner Semafo Inc. has halted operations at its Boungou gold mine in eastern Burkina Faso as the fallout widens from one of the worst-ever terrorist attacks on employees of a ...
The lawsuit against Nevsun, Nevsun vs. Araya, alleges that the company was complicit in the use of forced labour by a sub-contractor at its Bisha copper-zinc mine in Eritrea. Nevsun, which was acquired in late 2018 by Zijin At least 47 civilians were killed and more than 60 wounded when gunmen ambushed a convoy transporting workers of Canadian gold miner Semafo in eastern Burkin... Attack on Canadian miner in Burkina Faso threatens gold's final frontier. David Lewis, Helen Reid, ... The top investor in Semafo said risk and gold “The only thing that would shift the perception among gold miners that exposure to this insecurity is a risk worth taking is a direct attack on a mine site – an unlikely prospect,” said Eric ... Lawsuit against B.C. Canada is impli ed in these rights abuses through the role Canadian Rape, shootings, beatings, burnings — there are very few forms of violence that have not been recorded at the North Mara gold mine in Tanzania since a Canadian Currently the most advanced Burkina Faso: At least 47 killed in attack on Canadian
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