Gold over school: How poverty keeps Niger children in mining pits

For 15-year-old Musa, golden mining started erstwhile helium was hardly 10.

Five years later, the teen is nary longer successful schoolhouse and spends his days looking for golden astir Minna, a determination helium says was forced connected him by poorness and the request to enactment his family.

“I privation to spell backmost to school, but determination is nary wealth to nonstop me,” Musa told DAILY POST during an interrogation connected Wednesday, September 16, a time earlier the decease of suspected amerciable miners successful the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, successful Minna.

Musa is 1 of respective young radical whose stories amusement wherefore the conflict against amerciable mining cannot beryllium reduced to arrests and raids.

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