African Gold Limited announced that the Yatia-Sud Exploration Permit has now been granted which now allows for commencement of exploration works. The permit is located within the prolific gold producing Kedougou-Kenieba Inlier and within 20 km's of the regionally significant Senegal Mali Shear Zone known to host >45 Million oz of gold deposits. The permit (47 km) lies adjacent and immediately to the west of Algom Resources' Tabakoto-Segala Mining Permit and south east of Endeavour Mining's' Kofi Permit. The Company has also commenced its maiden exploration programme that includes soil sampling, rock chipping & first pass shallow drilling on initial target areas on its other granted permits in the Kedougou-Kenieba Inlier in western Mali. The Company looks forward to updating the market as results become available. The Yatia-Sud Gold Project is located in the Kenieba region of west Mali. The Project is readily accessible by a sealed highway to the regional town of Kenieba and then by well-formed gravel road to the Tabakoto Gold Mine and Tabakoto-Kofi haul road which passes through the project area. The eastern boundary of the Yatia-Sud property abuts the Tabakoto mine lease (Algom Resources). The Tabakoto Mill is situated approximately 5km to the south-east of the permit boundary. The western boundary of the property abuts the Kofi mine lease (Algom Resources). Artisanal gold mining occurs at many localities on the Yatia permit; the most significant are the Segala Ouest and Baroye sites. A portion of the 450-metre-long artisanal mine camp at Segala Ouest is an extension of the NW-striking Segala Mine trend (Segala deposit 0.8 Mozs gold - Algom Resources). This is mined utilising open pit and underground techniques over a number of years. Mineralisation is transported by road to the nearby Tabakoto Mill. The project area is generally underlain by gold prospective NNW trending Birimian-age metasediments, metavolcanics and granite. Exploration has been undertaken by BHP Minerals (1995), Alpine Exploration Corporation and Robex Resources (1996-1998), Great Quest Metals Ltd. (2002-2007) and Desert Gold Ventures Inc. (2008-2018). Significant gold mineralisation has been intersected in drilling and trenching at a number of locations on the Yatia property. Loulo-style alteration has also been intersected in drilling. More recent exploration work undertaken Desert Gold during this period included: surface geochemical sampling, trenching, ground magnetic and induced polarization, auger, RC and diamond drilling). A number of very significant artisanal mining sites are currently being mined on the license ­ including the Segala West site straddling eastern permit boundary. Soil sampling conducted by previous explorers have defined numerous large robust coherent anomalies (totaling >24km) with over 300 soil samples returning values in excess of 200 ppb gold including a maximum of 10 g/t gold from a surface geochemical soil sample.