Report on the First Annual Meeting & Symposium of WAIC

The first annual meeting and symposium of the West Africa InterPore Chapter (WAIC) was held in virtual format on 27 & 28 October 2023 with the participation of over 20 researchers from academia for this first event.

The meeting was opened by Dr. Marcel Bawindsom KEBRE, Associate Professor at Université Joseph KI-ZERBO (Burkina Faso) and Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee of WAIC.

For this first edition of its annual meeting & symposium with the Special Topic: Mining activities in Africa, mining waste management, WAIC invited researchers and industry professionals from different fields of porous media to submit abstracts specially to address the pressing challenges associated with mining activities in Africa, particularly the critical issue of mining waste management. Ten abstracts were received: two from Germany, one from Sénégal, one from Niger, one from Nigeria, and five from Burkina Faso.

Read the full report here.