{"id":5581,"date":"2020-08-19T14:29:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T14:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanep.gravitywebsolutionsgh.com\/?p=5581"},"modified":"2021-03-21T08:10:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T08:10:48","slug":"policy-brief-illegal-mining-in-burkina-faso-a-contributory-factor-to-current-peace-and-security-crisis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/policy-brief-illegal-mining-in-burkina-faso-a-contributory-factor-to-current-peace-and-security-crisis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Brief:- Illegal Mining in Burkina Faso: A Contributory Factor to Current Peace and Security Crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the early 1980s, mining has been an integral part of Burkina Faso&#8217;s economy. The recent boom in the prices of minerals, especially gold in the world market has led to a significant increase in the contribution of mining to the country&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which has trebled from 3 percent in 2009 to 9 percent in 2016 with its share of exports also increasing from 43 percent to 69 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/files\/2019\/Nov\/POLICY_BRIEF_ON_ILLEGAL_MINING_IN_BF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download file here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the early 1980s, mining has been an integral part of Burkina Faso&#8217;s economy. The recent boom in the prices of minerals, especially gold in the world market has led to a significant increase in the contribution of mining to the country&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which has trebled from 3 percent in 2009 to 9 percent in 2016 with its share of exports also increasing from 43 percent to 69 percent. Download file here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy-brief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}