West Africa Gold Inc. Establishes an Advisory Committee and Appoints Its Chairman Company Appoints Ferdi da Silva Pereira as Advisory Committee Chairman NEW YORK, May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- West Africa Gold Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: WAGI) announced today that it has formed an Advisory Committee to be comprised of senior geologists and experienced mining engineers. This Committee will initially focus on the evaluation of all the geological data and Mining Reports in respect of the Company's initial five Mining Projects in Mali, West Africa and to then formulate a strategy for the exploration and development of these five mining projects. The Advisory Committee's Reports and recommendations will be published on the Company's web site, http://www.westafricagold.com/ as the Committee deems appropriate and all agreed strategies in respect of each of these five Mining Projects will be issued to shareholders and interested parties through frequent Press Releases. The Chairman of this Advisory Committee is Mr. Fernando ("Ferdi") Ivo da Silva Pereira. Mr. Pereira is fluent in French and Portuguese as well as in two African dialects. He is familiar with Mali and Africa and is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has a B.Sc. from the University of Natal in South Africa and completed a thesis on the Geology of Zululand to read for his M.Sc. He is registered as a Professional Geologist (Pr.Sci.Nat.) with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions. Mr. Pereira's experience in the geological field is primarily in South Africa, Namibia, West Africa and in Brazil. His experience covers exploration geology in Coal, Gold, Uranium, Manganese, Chrome, Tin, Andalucite, Magnesite, PGM's and Diamonds. All of this Exploration Geological Exploration experience encompassed field exploration and mapping, remote sensing techniques with aerial photography, satellite and TIR imagery, hydrogeology, core drilling, sampling, applied geostatistics, geophysics and geochemistry; large scale sampling, metallurgical testing and feasibility studies; mine planning and control with computer modeling applications as well as Project feasibility studies and mine evaluations. Mr. Pereira also has experience in the Metallurgy of Diamonds with the design, fabrication, erection, control and day-to-day operation of Dense Media plants, rotary pans, jigs, crushers, mills and Sortex. His experience in Metallurgy of Gold encompasses the crushing, milling, CIP and carbon elution and in Coal with the Metallurgical control and blending. His experience in Chrome, Tin and Andalucite encompasses Ore concentration and beneficiation. Mr. Pereira's Mining experience includes Surface mining including quarry and strip mining, hands-on management control, mine evaluation, planning and geological correlation and control; control of operation of medium-sized draglines, bulldozers, backactors, trucks and ADT's, surface drilling and blasting. He is experienced in Surface and environmental studies and rehabilitation. His experience in Underground operations include in board-and-pillar, block-caving, rasue mining, mine planning, development and control. Mr. Pereira's Mine management experience includes his appointment as Mine Manager, General Manager and as Executive Director in medium-sized operations with overall technical and executive responsibility, company administration, financial planning, organization and control. He has been involved in Project management and as Plant project prime contractor on diamond recovery plants. He has been appointed in overall control General project management, surface mining and pilot plant, mine feasibility and evaluation projects. Mr. Pereira has worked for a number of companies over the years including Rand Mines, Southern Sphere Mining, Mineracao Colorado Brazil, Newmont Mining, Carrigs, Angodior Angola, Rietfontein Gold Recovery, New Rand Mining Corporation, Trans Hex International (Angola) and Lazare Kaplan International. He has served as a Consultant Geologist to numerous Mining Companies in various sectors of the Mining Industry. He is a Director of Mesklip Research (Pty) Limited, a company established to develop mining projects worldwide, a Director of Belafrique Mining (Pty) Limited, a company established to mine Alluvial Diamonds in the DRC and is a Director of Haraambe Mining (Pty) Limited, a South African Black Empowerment Mining Company established to develop various Mining Projects in that country. Mr. Pereira will now be appointing further experienced and highly qualified Geologists and Mining Engineers as members of the Company's Advisory Board and full details of all of these appointments will be announced in due course. About West Africa Gold Inc.: West Africa Gold Inc., http://www.westafricagold.com/, has acquired a 70% interest in the Toubikoto (Gold), Manianguiti (Gold), In Darset (Gold, Base Metals), Anefis (Gold, Base Metals) and Touban (Nickel, Copper PGE's) mining properties. The properties are located in diverse geographic locations throughout Mali. In aggregate, the properties total over 500 square kilometers (approximately 193 square miles). The Geological Resource Evaluation on the properties indicates a potential Inferred Geological Resource of at least 3,000,000 ounces of gold. The Company will continue to explore the various rights and potential new targets Statements contained in this press release, which are not historical facts, are forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based largely on the Company's expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties beyond the Company's control, including but not limited to economic, competitive and other factors affecting the Company's operations, management team effectiveness, expansion strategies, available financing, market prices and recovery costs, government regulations involving the Company, facts and events not known at the time of this release, and other factors discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. The Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements. This release was issued through Major Newswire (http://www.majornewswire.com/) DATASOURCE: West Africa Gold Inc. CONTACT: Equity Alliance International, +1-858-459-3552, for West Africa Gold Inc. Web site: http://www.majornewswire.com/ Web site: http://www.westafricagold.com/

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