In Liberia, A Gold Boom Leads To Unregulated Mining And Ailing Rivers liberianobserver.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from liberianobserver.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The waterways that frame the town of Sam Beach in Liberia’s Rivercess County once served as a lifeline for local people, providing them with fish as well as clean water for drinking, cooking and washing. But that was decades ago. Today, more than 1,000 gold diggers, six licensed mining concession holders, three brokers and two […]
NIMBA COUNTY, Liberia In 2020, villagers from the Blei and Sehyi Kodoo districts agreed to allow Solway Mining Incorporated to explore for iron-ore deposits in their territory in the Nimba mountain range in northern Liberia. Under pressure, these communities overrode their decade-old conservation management plan and agreed to allow Solway access to community-managed forests […]
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