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June 14, 2017 | Pulitzer Center
Legacy of Lead: The Children of Kabwe
Children are the most susceptible victims of lead poisoning in Kabwe, Zambia, the world's most toxic town.
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Africa
June 09, 2017 | Verspers
Cooking on Open Fire Causes More Victims Than AIDS
Ingrid Gercama and Nathalie Bertrams visited the burn center at largest hospital in Malawi.
June 09, 2017 | Mo*
Malawi: Toxic Cooking Smoke Silently Kills
In Malawi, women smoke themselves to death—yet only 0.4 percent of women in the country puff cigarettes. Cooking smoke poses a serious public health threat to the country’s female population.
June 09, 2017 | Süddeutsche Zeitung
Malawi's Toxic Kitchens
The smoke of cooking fires makes Malawi’s women and children sick, but not everyone can afford an improved cook stove.
June 04, 2017 | Vox
20 Million Starving to Death: Inside the Worst Famine Since World War II
A report from South Sudan.
June 02, 2017 | Field Notes
Subsistence Mining at Kabwe's Black Mountain
Kabwe, Zambia, is Africa's most toxic city. At its heart lies Black Mountain, where men and children scavenge lead atop a 100-foot-high wasteland created by a century of mining activity.
May 29, 2017 | The Guardian
The Heavy Legacy of Lead in the World's Most Toxic Town—in Pictures
Kabwe in Zambia has been left with extreme levels of lead pollution after almost a century of metal mining and smelting, harming generations of children.
May 29, 2017 | The Guardian
The World's Most Toxic Town: The Terrible Legacy of Zambia's Lead Mines
Almost a century of lead mining and smelting has poisoned generations of children in the Copperbelt town of Kabwe in Zambia.
May 25, 2017 | Field Notes
DRC: UN Peacekeepers in Dungu
In Dungu’s Belgian chateau, UN peacekeepers maintain a small base where they have partied for nearly a decade. To reach Dungu means navigating a highway that has been a hotbed of LRA activity.
May 24, 2017 | Scientific American
Feeding a Hot, Hungry Planet
Creating sustainable food systems in the face of a changing climate isn't easy—but innovators around the world are making real progress.
May 04, 2017 | PBS NewsHour
How Rape Is Used as a Weapon in South Sudan’s War
Rape has become a tool of war in South Sudan, wielded against women of rival tribes.
May 03, 2017 | PBS NewsHour
Millions Are on the Brink of War-Driven Starvation in South Sudan
People in South Sudan are on the run from government troops, targeted because of their tribe amid a brutal civil war.