Artisanal Mining , A Blessing and A Curse – Kitwe Zambia By Nsama Musonda Kearns Voice Note 1 Greetings to you all dear listeners, My name is Nsama Musonda Kearns and I am based Zambia, I run a community based organization known as World Wide Care for Nature. Today am very delighted to be given this …
Copper Belt
Copper Belt/Former copper mining centre in Kitwe, under new attack, this time by illegal and small scale mining
Nkana in Kitwe was one of the key mining centres in Zambia since the 1930’s. Communities were created by this industry which brought great wealth of corporations and the economy but hardships for local communities. With the decline of copper, a new problem has emerged with illegal and small scale mining. Monitors in Nkana West, …
