Minor news article on Perkoahttps://www.omegamedias.info/blog/2022/04/28/burkina-perkoa-charles-bama-le-visage-connu-des-disparus-de-la-mine-de-perkoa/
Article is in french, and is mostly about a human interest story about a specific miner. The relevant part is this:
ce jour, l’quipe de sauvetage, compose d’acteurs de la mine et d’autres structures prives et tatiques sont toujours pied d’uvre pour retrouver les mineurs. Leurs actions consistent rparer la voix d’accs l’intrieur de la fosse et d’y pomper la grosse quantit d’eau.
Ce jeudi cela fait 13 jours que les 8 personnes n’ont pas donn signe de vie suite l’inondation de la mine le samedi 16 avril dernier.
Essentially, reads "The rescue team, composed of miners and other private-sector and State players, are still laying out the groundwork for rescuing the trapped miners. Their actions consist of repairing the access tunnel to the interior of the mine pit, and pumping out the large quantity of water. This Thursday marks the 13th day that the eight trapped miners have shown no signs of life following the flooding of the mine last Saturday, April 16th".