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Mali aims to remove around 13,000 ghost workers from its payroll in an effort to save about $5o million, the country’s information minister said.
Mountaga Tall said the government had identified the ghost workers, saying some of them were workers who had either moved to other organizations or died.
The identified ghost workers also risk prosecution for fraud.
Mali is one of the world’s poorest nations.
Investigating and striking off ghost workers are among the requirements of Mali’s programme with the IMF.
