Mali has just done the unthinkable. After decades of exploitation, unfair contracts, and billions lost to foreign mining corporations, the Malian government has finally fought back — and won. Under Colonel Assimi Goïta’s new mining code, Mali has recovered more than $1.2 billion in unpaid taxes, hidden arrears, and withheld royalties from some of the world’s biggest Western mining companies. For years, firms like Barrick Gold, B2Gold, Resolute Mining, and Hummingbird Resources operated under wea