{"id":27251,"date":"2025-02-17T06:56:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T06:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27251"},"modified":"2025-02-17T06:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T06:56:25","slug":"gold-mine-collapse-in-mali-kills-48-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/02\/gold-mine-collapse-in-mali-kills-48-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold mine collapse in Mali kills 48 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; At least 48 people were killed in the collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in western Mali, authorities and local sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Mali is one of Africa&#8217;s leading gold producers, and mining sites are regularly the scene of deadly landslides and accidents.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have struggled to control unregulated mining of the precious metal in the country, which is among the world&#8217;s poorest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The toll at 1800 today is 48 dead following the collapse,&#8221; said a police source.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the victims fell into the water. Among them was a woman with her baby on her back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A local official confirmed the cave-in, while the Kenieba gold miners&#8217; association also put the death toll at 48. The search for victims was ongoing, the head of an environmental organisation told\u00a0<i>AFP<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s accident took place at an abandoned site formerly operated by a Chinese company, sources told\u00a0<i>AFP<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>In January, a landslide at a gold mine in southern Mali killed at least 10 people and left many others missing, most of them women.<\/p>\n<p>Just over a year ago, a tunnel collapsed at a gold mining site in the same region as Saturday&#8217;s landslide, killing more than 70 people.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; At least 48 people were killed in the collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in western Mali, authorities and local sources said. Mali is one of Africa&#8217;s leading gold producers, and mining sites are regularly the scene of deadly landslides and accidents. Authorities have struggled to control unregulated mining of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,194,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-world","category-headline"],"views":47,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27253,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27251\/revisions\/27253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}