mining

Floods wash away salt industry and tourism at Senegal’s ‘Pink Lake’

Rufisque – Maguette Ndiour stands on the edge of Senegal’s Lake Retba, famous for its pink-hued waters, and points... Read more

3 Nov, 2022

Shabara – Five thousand diggers pack tightly together at the bottom of a crater in southeastern DR Congo (DRC),... Read more

3 Nov, 2022

Moanda – Mechanical diggers are hard at work in the bleak landscape of the Moanda open-cast mine in Gabon,... Read more

26 Oct, 2022

Maputo – London-listed ruby mining giant Gemfields said on Thursday it has ceased operations at a mine in northern... Read more

21 Oct, 2022

Kinshasa – Gold mining in a Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) national park is threatening the okapi, a stripy-legged... Read more

20 Oct, 2022

Doringbaai – To those who live here, it’s like a little piece of heaven, boasting pink flamingos, white beaches... Read more

19 Oct, 2022

Lubumbashi – The main highway linking the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia was closed on Wednesday after days... Read more

6 Oct, 2022

Kinshasa – An adviser to the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo resigned on Friday after footage surfaced of... Read more

17 Sep, 2022

Ouagadougou – A Burkina court on Wednesday handed suspended sentences for manslaughter to two managers of a mine where eight... Read more

15 Sep, 2022

Bunia – An attack on a gold mining site killed 16 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled... Read more

17 Aug, 2022