Deal #5704
Burkina Faso
Created at
2017-10-11
Last update
2021-11-29
Last full update
2020-08-07
Consultation of local community
Community consultation
Limited consultation
How did the community react?
Community reaction
Mixed reaction
Displacement of people
Displacement of people
Yes
Comment on displacement of people
People lost access to their agricultural fields and land for artisanal gold mining
Negative impacts for local communities
Negative impacts for local communities
Environmental degradation, Displacement, Violence
Comment on negative impacts for local communities
the new acquisition by Amara of Seguénéga site implied violent displacements and the road built between Kalsaka and Sega sites divided villages from fields.
It is apparently a legislative blank and a lack of political willingness which keep on delaying the start of the environmental rehabilitation of the open pits. By March 2017, this situation remains the same. The cyanide and arsenic pollution of the soil continues limiting agriculture and threatening wildlife.
Promised or received compensation
Promised compensation (e.g. for damages or resettlements)
The promises of local employment were not honored.
Received compensation (e.g. for damages or resettlements)
The monetary compensations only considered the expropriations from the farming lands while the artisanal miners were not compensated from losing access to the lands for gold panning.