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.
Children are the most susceptible victims of lead poisoning in Kabwe, Zambia, the world's most toxic town.
Ingrid Gercama and Nathalie Bertrams visited the burn center at largest hospital in Malawi.
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The smoke of cooking fires makes Malawi’s women and children sick, but not everyone can afford an improved cook stove.
A report from South Sudan.
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.
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.
Almost a century of lead mining and smelting has poisoned generations of children in the Copperbelt town of Kabwe in Zambia.
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.
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Rape has become a tool of war in South Sudan, wielded against women of rival tribes.
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