Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Desperate Zimbabweans Risk Lives in Abandoned Mines

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Officials in Zimbabwe say the bodies of eight illegal miners have been retrieved from an abandoned gold mine about 50 kilometers north of Harare. The news Monday was a reminder of the risk faced by desperate illegal miners trying to make a living in the economically troubled southern African country. Matopo is a gold rich area in southern Zimbabwe, and some men there enter such mines, despite the danger involved. These men are illegal miners, using a metal detector to search for...

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