Former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has bought a 5% stake in a gold mine in his home country, Ivory Coast, the west African country’s communications minister Bruno Kone said.
State mining group Sodemis giving up 14 pc of its 44 pc stake, allowing Canadian miner La Mancha to raise its stake to 55 pc from 46 pc in the mine and Drogba getting the remaining 5%. The Ity mine is in the west near the border with Liberia and is the country’s oldest gold mine.
Ivory Coast, the world’s largest cocoa grower, is trying to expand its mining industry, left underdeveloped for decades as the government concentrated its efforts on its agricultural commodities sector.
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