Mary Corrigall

Moussa ZONGO

 
Title of the article
Orpaillage - Du pain souterrain au prix de la témérité
Name of media
L’événement
Country
Burkina Faso

Moussa ZONGO has been a reporter for L’Evènement since 2006 after having studied Journalism at the University of Ouagadougou. In 2007, he was a communication officer for the NGO Plan for 6 months before returning to writing.

More than 20 people have been killed in several collapses of gold wells in the North of Burkina Faso since the beginning of 2009. According to the Ministry of Mines, more than 200,000 diggers are working in precarious conditions on the 142 gold mining sites in the country. The worker is paid only if he discovers gold. The operators impose their prices on miners who are forced by security agents to sell gold on the spot. Authorities said they became aware of the problem and promised a revision.

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