About 72% of gold miners poisoned with mercury at artisanal mining sites in Cameroon
BATOURI, Cameroon – At Kambélé III, an artisanal mining site in the commune of Batouri, located 415 kilometers (268 miles) east of Yaoundé, Cameroon’s capital, male, female, teenage, and child gold miners are already hard at work on a sunny Thursday morning. Clothed in rags and without protection, they dig, comb, and excavate the gutted […]
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