Jingjing Zhang is a lawyer and environmental activist who has fought Chinese companies that pollute for decades. Her work has…
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In the northeastern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chinese mining companies are exploiting government corruption, driving local…
Illegal mining in Nigeria has gained momentum and is fueling violence, especially in areas with high unemployment. Chinese nationals and…
More than seven months after a toxic waste spill at a Chinese-owned mine caused one of the worst environmental disasters…
Ghanaian authorities are promising to punish Chinese nationals involved in illegal gold mining as the government tries to reduce the…
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…