‘No choice’: Burkina miners toil in Ouagadougou quarry
OUAGADOUGOU: Dust and toxic fumes billow from a cavernous, ashy granite quarry in the centre of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou. A giant crater located among the roads, houses and administrative buildings of the city’s Pissy neighbourhood, the mine has been dug by hand over 40 years. Artisanal miners toil in the bowels of the earth, … Read more