🇹🇿Tanzania Government Orders Foreign Acacia ⛏Mining Staff to Leave

Tanzania asked foreign employees of London-listed Acacia Mining, to leave the country in an escalation of a dispute that began in 2016 over allegations of tax evasion, a source said.

Two senior local staff of the mining firm, Tanzania's largest foreign investor, were detained and interrogated at an airport this week, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.

One of the sources said the arrests were related to the dispute.

The company said it was having trouble renewing work permits for foreign staff.

But Chief Executive Brad Gordon denied a Reuters report that foreign staff, were asked to leave by the government due to the dispute over mining licences and accusations of tax evasion.

He said its local employees, that's being interviewed by Tanzanian "government agencies" but did not confirm detentions.

UCJ, UNILORIN.