By Emma Black Momoh Swaray is a Sierra Leonean who grew up in a mining family in the Kailahun District. Sixteen years ago, following the civil war, he and many other Sierra Leoneans moved to Liberia to try to build a better life for themselves. Swaray got married to a Liberian woman and they had six children. He returned to gold mining in hopes of striking it rich. Amongst the
Illegal Sierra Leonean Miners Dying in Liberia
Illegal Sierra Leonean Miners Dying in Liberia
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Unmarked graves of Gabriel Bangura, Alex Conteh, Layei Kanu and Mohamed Fontan, Sierra Leonean miners who died on Liberian mines, in a cemetery outside of Henry Town, Gbarpolu County. FrontPage Africa/James Harding Giahyue
HENRY TOWN, Liberia and KENEMA, Sierra Leone – Ibrahim Sesay, a Sierra Leonean miner, never signed up to die when he crossed into Liberia in 2008 in search of greener pasture on mines in Korninga Chiefdom of Gbarpolu’s Bopolu District.
A New Narratives cross-border investigation by Mae Azango and Emma Black, in Sierra Leone and Liberia