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Govt aims to save $50m by striking 13,000 'ghost' workers off payroll

Information Minister Mountaga Tall made the comments about bogus state employees on state TV and radio late on Friday.

A general view shows the ACI 2000 neighborhood in Bamako, Mali, April 12, 2016.

A source in the West African state's finance ministry told Reuters on Saturday these were mostly workers who had either died or left to go and work for international organisations. The source added that prosecutions could follow, but for the moment the priority was to get stolen money repaid.

The landlocked desert nation and an important gold exporter, Mali has suffered from endemic corruption and instability over the years, and more lately from multiple insurrections by Islamist groups in the north, as well as infighting between armed factions.

Information Minister Mountaga Tall made the comments about bogus state employees on state TV and radio late on Friday.

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"The minister (of public service) conducted a physical control combined with paying in cash ... (and) detected about 13,000 staff that were either fictitious or irregular," he said.

"The savings that can be made if all measures are taken ... will be around 30 billion CFA francs," Tall added. He did not give a breakdown of the figure. The source at the finance ministry also could not provide such details.

Investigating and striking off ghost workers are among the requirements of Mali's programme with the IMF.

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