{"id":9961,"date":"2025-08-28T09:59:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/?p=9961"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:28:00","slug":"thematic-report-women-and-the-shadow-economy-of-illegal-mining-in-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/thematic-report-women-and-the-shadow-economy-of-illegal-mining-in-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Thematic Report:- Women and the Shadow Economy of Illegal Mining in West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Illegal mining, often referred to as artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) without legal authorisation, has proliferated across West Africa over the past decades. The phenomenon is partly driven by high demand for minerals such as gold, diamonds, and coltan, as well as unemployment among populations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Thematic-Report-Women-and-the-Shadow-Economy-of-Illegal-Mining-in-West-Africa-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download file here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illegal mining, often referred to as artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) without legal authorisation, has proliferated across West Africa over the past decades. The phenomenon is partly driven by high demand for minerals such as gold, diamonds, and coltan, as well as unemployment among populations. Download file here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thematic-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9982,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961\/revisions\/9982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}