Country Experience: Senegal
This job involved a site visit and project appraisal of the former French BRGM-owned Sabodala gold property in far eastern Senegal, on the West African coast.
The assignment, conducted in a French speaking environment, provided an insight into the emerging West African economies, the changing taxation and project financing settings, plus additional exposure to customs formalities, ministerial whim, in this case in Dakar, and banditry on the Mali border.