{"id":7792,"date":"2012-02-09T01:49:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T23:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/burkina-faso-plans-social-fund-from-gold-revenue\/"},"modified":"2012-02-09T01:49:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T23:49:04","slug":"burkina-faso-plans-social-fund-from-gold-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/burkina-faso-plans-social-fund-from-gold-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso plans social fund from gold revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN<\/span> Feb 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Burkina Faso plans to<br \/>\ncreate a social development fund from the government&#8217;s tax and<br \/>\nroyalty revenue from gold mining, the country&#8217;s mines minister<br \/>\nsaid on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would come from the revenue of gold,&#8221; Salif Kabore told<br \/>\nReuters on the sidelines of an industry conference in Cape Town<br \/>\ncalled the Investing in African Mining Indaba. He said the fund<br \/>\nwould go toward &#8220;communities and the environment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Asked if it meant any changes in taxes and royalties, he<br \/>\nsaid: &#8220;No, not more taxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He declined to give further details.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Burkina Faso is an emerging gold producer in frontier<br \/>\nAfrica, but as in much of Africa, mineral wealth there has yet<br \/>\nto translate into wider prosperity, a point underscored last<br \/>\nyear when riots broke out over food and fuel price increases.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ed Stoddard; Editing by Richard Valdmanis and<br \/>\nJane Baird)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN Feb 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Burkina Faso plans to create a social development fund from the government&#8217;s tax and royalty revenue from gold mining, the country&#8217;s mines minister said on Wednesday. &#8220;It would come from the revenue of gold,&#8221; Salif Kabore told Reuters on the sidelines of an industry conference in Cape Town called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}