Ann: Request for Extension of Voluntary Suspension, page-78

And you fail to understand that Africa is no longer Western's mining playground. They have been used and abused for centuries and are (rightfully) angry. Very angry.

All the protests happening in Mali, Niger, Burkina are full of Russian flags. Do you think they love yankees there or give a rat's ass about Barrick?

Some dodgy Chinese or Russian mining company will take over the mines, give the country a bigger piece of the cake and in 5 years it will be like Barrick never existed.

This is a new world, and Africa is a BRICS member.

The problem is that in our minds we have been educated to believe that Africans live in clay huts and without us they couldn't even tie their own shoe laces. And we thought they would never rise.

But they have.