President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, also at the meeting,
called on miners to end the practice of child labour.
"We will not allow children into gold mining sites," Keita
said, "We have to stop this."
A 2011 report by Human Rights Watch detailed reports of
children aged 6 to 17 in Mali's artisanal mines digging pits,
working underground in unstable mines, carrying and crushing
heavy ore, and using toxic mercury to extract gold.
http://af.reuters.com/article/ghanaNews/idAFL6N0RJ53Z20140918
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