In mineral-rich communities across Nigeria, a cycle of deaths has been unleashed on families whose loved ones are dying in illegal artisanal gold mines where crude tools, unstable pits and toxic chemicals have yielded a harvest of environmental damage unchecked, writes VICTOR AYENI
T he steady scrape of Jamal Abubakar’s shovel echoed as he cleared the overgrown weeds at the front of a client’s building.
Abubakar had been working with a…
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