B2GOLD CORP.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL AND SPECIAL MEETING

to be held on June 11, 2021

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General and Special Meeting (the "Meeting") of the shareholders ("Shareholders") of B2GOLD CORP. ("B2Gold" or the "Company") will be held in a virtual-only format conducted via live audio webcast online at https://web.lumiagm.com/431696046on Friday, June 11, 2021 (the "Meeting Date"), at 2:00 p.m. (Vancouver time) for the following purposes:

  1. To receive and consider the audited annual consolidated financial statements for 2020.
  2. To set the number of directors of the Company at nine.
  3. To elect directors of the Company for the ensuing year.
  4. To appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants, as the Auditor of the Company for the ensuing year and to authorize the directors of the Company to fix their remuneration.
  5. To approve, with or without variation, an ordinary resolution ratifying, confirming and approving certain amendments to the Company's advance notice policy.
  6. To approve, with or without variation, an ordinary resolution approving certain matters relating to the Company's 2018 Stock Option Plan, as defined and more particularly described in the accompanying Management Information Circular of the Company dated May 7, 2021 (the "Information Circular").
  7. To vote, on a non-binding advisory basis, on a resolution to accept the Company's approach to executive compensation, as more particularly described and set forth in the Information Circular.
  8. To transact such other business as may properly come before the Meeting, or any adjournment or adjournments thereof.

The board of directors of the Company (the "Board" or the "Board of Directors") has fixed the close of business on April 27, 2021, as the record date (the "Record Date") for determining Shareholders who are entitled to receive notice and to vote at the Meeting or any adjournment of the Meeting. No person who becomes a Shareholder of the Company after the Record Date will be entitled to vote or act at the Meeting or any adjournment thereof.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Out of an abundance of caution, to proactively deal with potential issues arising from the unprecedented public health impact of coronavirus disease 2019 ("COVID-19"), the Meeting is currently scheduled to take place in a virtual-only format conducted via live audio webcast online at https://web.lumiagm.com/431696046. As such, registered and non-registeredShareholders will not be able to attend the Meeting in person and the Company strongly encourages all registered and non-registeredShareholders who wish to attend and participate in the Meeting to carefully follow the procedures described in the Information Circular to ensure they can attend and participate in the Meeting virtually via live audio webcast online athttps://web.lumiagm.com/431696046.

Notice and Access

This Information Circular is being sent to Shareholders using Notice and Access, the delivery procedures that allow the Company to send Shareholders paper copies of a notice of meeting and form of proxy or voting instruction form, while providing Shareholders access to electronic copies of the Information Circular over the internet or the option to receive paper copies of the Information Circular if they so request within the prescribed time periods ("Notice and Access"). For more information, please refer to the Notice and Access Notification delivered to you.

Meeting Materials

Accompanying this Notice of Meeting are: (i) the Information Circular; (ii) a form of proxy; and (iii) an annual financial statement request form.

The Information Circular provides information relating to the matters to be addressed at the Meeting. Copies of any documents to be considered, approved, ratified and adopted or authorized at the Meeting will be available for inspection at the registered and records office of the Company at 1600 - 925 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3L2, during normal business hours up to June 11, 2021, being the date of the Meeting, subject to the Company's and its registered and records office's compliance with all restrictions and limitations imposed pursuant to any applicable laws, regulations and policies relating to, or in connection with, COVID-19. For public health reasons and for the safety of each person, Shareholders are strongly encouraged to access copies of any documents to be considered, approved, ratified and adopted or authorized at the Meeting under the Company's profile on SEDAR at https://www.sedar.com, on EDGAR at https://www.sec.gov/, on the Company's website at https://www.b2gold.comor by contacting Ian MacLean, Vice President of Investor Relations, Suite 3400, Park Place, 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2X8 (Tel: 604-681-8371).

Voting

If you are a registered Shareholder, you may attend, participate and vote at the Meeting online via live audio webcast at https://web.lumiagm.com/431696046, provided you are connected to the internet and comply with all of the requirements set out in the Information Circular.

If you are a registered Shareholder and are unable to participate online via the live webcast of the Meeting, in order for your proxy to be valid and your votes to be counted, you must date, execute and return the accompanying form of proxy to the Company, c/o Computershare Investor Services Inc., 100 University Avenue, 8th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2Y1 (Attn: Proxy Department), by not later than 2:00 p.m. (Vancouver time) on Wednesday, June 9, 2021, or if the Meeting is adjourned, not later than 48 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays) before the time for holding the adjourned meeting.

If you are a non-registered Shareholder and receive these materials through your broker or another intermediary, please complete and return the materials in accordance with the instructions provided to you by your broker or other intermediary. If you are a non-registered Shareholder and do not complete and return the materials in accordance with such instructions, you may lose the right to vote at the Meeting online.

Non-registered Shareholders will be able to attend, participate in and vote at the Meeting online via live audio webcast at https://web.lumiagm.com/431696046if they duly appoint themselves as proxyholder through the method specified by their intermediary and comply with all of the requirements set out in the Information Circular relating to that appointment and registration. If a non-registered Shareholder does not comply with these requirements, that non- registered Shareholder will be able to attend the Meeting online as a guest but will not be able to vote or ask questions at the Meeting online.

Shareholder Questions

For more detailed information and instructions on voting, please refer to the Information Circular.

Shareholders who have questions, including with respect to Notice and Access, or need assistance with voting their shares should contact Laurel Hill Advisory Group, the proxy solicitation agent, by telephone at: 1-877-452-7184 (North American Toll Free) or 416-304-0211 (Outside North America); or by email at: assistance@laurelhill.com.

DATED at Vancouver, British Columbia, this 7th day of May, 2021.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD

"Clive Johnson"

Clive Johnson

President, Chief Executive Officer

and Director

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