00:02Hundreds of gold miners have started departing a location in Mali where they gathered after being expelled by neighboring Guinea.
00:10Trucks and buses are being used to transport the miners.
00:14At the site, men wait to leave, some with their luggage, while others bought vehicles that have come to collect
00:21them.
00:21They were sent home after Guinean authorities launched a crackdown on illegal mining.
00:29Our boss didn't tell us that it was to work at a gold mine.
00:33We arrived in Burkina Faso, and that's where our boss has picked us up.
00:37On the way, I realized we had reached Mali.
00:40After passing through Mali, we headed to Guinea Conakry.
00:43I said, ah, boss, because they didn't tell us we were going to do gold work.
00:48We said we wanted to go back, but the boss refused.
00:51As for the transportation, if we want to go back, we have to ask our parents to send us a
00:56payment in advance before we can leave.
00:59Among those gathered in West Indugu are nationals of Burkina Faso and Benin who have traveled to Guinea to do
01:06work in gold mining.
01:07Groups of miners waited under tents, resting or sharing meals.
01:14When we returned to our country, what we want is for the governments to be able to fund us so
01:19we can do our job.
01:21There are people who have learned welding, carpentry, all that, but they lack the means to open their workshops and
01:28work.
01:37On November 7th, Malian authorities said they had received around 160,000 people expelled from Guinea since the start of
01:46the operations.
01:47They also reported six deaths in what they called a humanitarian emergency.
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