Teranga Gold Corporation announced that it is strengthening its management team and increasing its focus on exploration with the appointments of Paul Chawrun to Chief Operating Officer and David Mallo to Vice President, Exploration. Paul Chawrun has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer and will be focused on achieving operational excellence at the company's Sabodala gold mine in Senegal, West Africa. Mr. Chawrun has served as Teranga's Vice President, Technical Services, playing a fundamental role in steering the Company's successful acquisition and integration of the Oromin Joint Venture Group (OJVG) property, the development of the high-grade Gora satellite deposit, and driving several high-return organic growth initiatives including a plant expansion and heap leaching.

Prior to Teranga, Mr. Chawrun held a number of senior management, project development and operations positions at Detour Gold, Dynatec Mining, Suncor Energy and Fording Coal (now part of Teck Resources). More recently, Mr. Mallo was the Vice President of Exploration for Oromin Explorations Ltd. at the OJVG Gold Project in Senegal, West Africa. In this capacity, he was responsible for designing, implementing and managing all aspects of the advanced exploration campaigns from the 2004 inception of the OJVG Gold Project through feasibility and merger with Teranga in 2013.