In April 2019, The Reporter Ethiopia wrote that the relevant ministry was preparing to release a report on MIDROC’s gold mine operations, a file long tangled with environment, labor, and political proximity questions.
Gold is not only export forex. It is land, cyanide talk, community health, and whether politically connected capital gets a softer inspection regime than ordinary firms.
Abiy Ahmed’s early anti-corruption theater and MIDROC-era bargains sat in tension. Publishing a mine report only matters if findings can change permits, not just headlines.
Kept as resources/rights reference, the MIDROC gold file belongs in Ethiopia’s extractives memory: who digs, who profits, and who breathes the dust.
Sources: The Reporter Ethiopia
