Group were held after a meeting about what mining firm referred to as unsubstantiated claims regarding taxes and levies

An Australian gold mining company has agreed to pay $160m ($A247m, £126m) to Mali’s government, after the West African country’s junta detained its chief executive and two other employees.

Resolute Mining’s chief executive Terence Holohan and the other two employees were detained on 8 November in Mali’s capital Bamako, at the end of a meeting with government officials over tax and other state claims that the miner had previously said were “unsubstantiated”.

Continue reading...