{"id":253869,"date":"2026-01-23T16:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/253869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:53:16","slug":"malis-president-tightens-direct-control-over-key-mining-sector-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/253869\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali&#8217;s president tightens direct control over key mining sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ZEQFZGB5VBJG7E2NWWLU6G4NPI-820x547.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-642397\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"  \/>Mali\u2019s junta leader Assimi Goita attends the first ordinary summit of heads of state and governments of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) in Niamey, Niger July 6, 2024. REUTERS\/Mahamadou Hamidou\/File Photo<\/p>\n<p>ACCRA, Jan 22 (Reuters)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mali\u2019s military leader has created a new ministerial-level role to oversee the mining sector, strengthening the presidency\u2019s direct oversight of the critical gold industry, and appointed a former Barrick Mining\u00a0executive to fill it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mali\u2019s junta leader Assimi Goita attends the first ordinary summit of heads of state and governments of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46,81814],"class_list":["post-253869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}