Ghanaian authorities are promising to punish Chinese nationals involved in illegal gold mining as the government tries to reduce the…
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Private military companies, private security companies, paramilitary forces and mercenaries have operated in Africa for decades, but their use by…
Mustafa Ibrahim was in a financial bind. The 48-year-old was a welder in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, but business…
Practitioners of galamsey, Ghana’s illegal small-scale mining epidemic, once used picks and shovels to extract gold and other minerals from…
In preparing for a raid on a notorious illegal mining settlement known as Abrewa Ni Nkrane, members of the Ghana…
With several arrests in the past year, Liberia is the latest West African country to clamp down on illegal mining…
When residents of Uis in western Namibia started noticing daily convoys of large trucks leaving what they thought was a…
Farai Maguwu has collected stories and testimonies throughout Zimbabwe for years. Some are heartbreaking, some disturbing, and each is accompanied…
Speaking to the United Nations Security Council in February, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Thérèse…
Less than two weeks after 50 million liters of toxic mining waste burst from the Sino-Metals Leach copper mine into…