Doctors Without Borders uncovered the scandal in 2010 but nothing was
done until this year about the worst-affected village, Bagega, because
the federal government did not provide a promised $3 million, the group
said.
The poisoning caused by artisanal mining from a gold rush killed at
least 400 children, yet villagers still say they would rather die of
lead poisoning than poverty, environmental scientist Simba Tirima told
the Associated Press Friday. Villagers make 10 times as much money
mining as they do from farming in an area suffering erratic rainfall
because of climate change, he said.
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