foreign companies have dug up oil gas, gold, precious monroe's and various other resources from africa that have left them with big profit, but with little benefit to the local. what small they've left behind, environmental health and social problems that crippled generations to come. i'm in a band and mine done in the city of johannesburg, which is home to thousands of people. they live under a cloud of radio active dust, the result of an australian company, mental became long operations, me a die. although the mine is now closed for years, environmental had sounded the alarm resident know to, well, the health hazards. they face mothers day course on this page. he gauge who doesn't and save it to us, diagnosed with t b r. so then they told me that that, that is to say, hey lance,

then she passed away, i have 4 children and i take them to the cleaning every time for the usual immunizations. but that's was, do not come off. i have to take them to the medication for today they came into the doctor to see what is wrong with them and no result. they had to tell me what is extra run with major with the people who yourself have been here since 1995 . i'm to do something for my the settlement is as old as democracy in our country and he says, all this is safe remembrance commission. it is very, very unfortunate that i've got 25 years of democracy in our country. the people are still living in this opinion, condition, directtv, there it is. dangerous to as to because of we him haley. then that lead to lead that he's gonna,

he's gonna head dives. he's when that can cause it's burning is stuff on the stomach and it raises to the float. burns. and then sometimes the fuel gets very dry and sometimes like something pinching inside the throat. major when have the symptoms they, they, they usually have. they get though i thought about their mouth, like pimples swayed pimples under them, and they are little what a look. and then they, they, their skin get fresh. it sometimes becomes like, ah, the skin color changes, am a traditional duct. i assume maybe sometimes it is the is because of their keep loose and wiggly. oh, maybe the aftermarket not leave. then i give them the medicine in they kick knees.

i give them medicine to drink in their system, but i realize that it doesn't stop it. the pay stubs for that time, but they can choose to come again. we just in the hailey that say every now and and if we now and then is this way that that thing is coming like total to close our our land. sometimes you can please quickly the standard of living is very poor and we are living on top of mining talent and we try to engage . we have different, you know, the nice part department as far as is concerned and there was no lock. there was no, i was in our proposals that we made in regard to a relocation. i'm not sure the government d times enough because the problem is as is too busy due to our house is what i don't know was going to happen for those houses when requote rousing. they say they

don't know us us. we don't stay here even we stay. the people are coming from are not up places. they come and register here and get houses there. do say we'll call, we'll go and wait for them. they will call us still waiting until now. and i move. yeah, just friends, i'm few people, you just verify a few people there from there, they took the baby's no good for people to see daddy. see you related to something like you really i'm a new teacher. you've been year. i think that area, it's dangerous, but i didn't get the idea where i can call because the people, when you come here for this you there and in the other people you tell us you can help us. so we, we do for that people to try to help us to get to shalicia how you can do for this place. we try to engage with different and you always like m p o, for donation, for sustainable environment. we engage with northwest 50

t with regard to this problem that we have to come to kentucky edition studies. and they are whereby they gave us a recommendation that according to the levels of flood and the volume while you're running, your mia? there is no one is allowed to live in this place. rose yes, i believe. i don't know much when i hit my head. i don't know. the stories echoed across africa. so how exactly do the mining companies gave way with it? my reach me for a ring from the foundation for safe environment. shades hurtful shots, africa anything f because isa hunger for economic development. and obviously there are also and binding companies or investors, or shared august which exploits the founder for economic development. in south africa, we have a convent legislation. however,

we have exceptionally poor enforcement of non compliance with our gauges nation in the age of africa, saturated namibia, ordering and motor tanya or m d r c. they might not be such a nice today to selection. and of course also the put inforcement so that i since resulted also in the exploitation by some of the mining companies. because that with the resulting in the extent guy sation of negative impacts wing ivy firm to externalize action of negative impacts, what often would happen is that the uranium or at the mythos would be extracted. i bet been asked of mine closure all decommissioning of mine when my niece was gazing maintenance, often dos impacts, which with now's for in this case, if you guide me in for you, logical ages ne, biological ages,

those impacts will be externalized to the communities to future generations to amused environment and offered to also financially beleaguered municipalities in south africa. they are approximately $300.00 i t 2 active minor areas. ways they are 400000 which are afflicted by the you guy in the and we would anticipate that they would be a high risk for the 3 students because they often as high. i b and i think teachers could on the tooth mail nutrition, substance abuse, so that all we have in the community stupid baby, vulnerable. the challenge yet is that the national nuclear that interprets it's mandate very narrowly. it's only a few like mine sat. it does not take you like the i do active minor races due to

fossil and jackie, the challenge, as i explained, we have 380 and i do active mind that a seduce is currently in the office, right. that is now in happening in south africa. if this is the issue that we must stick, these is that they should be sufficient. the abilene station funds for mining companies, not only to reach the current in franks, but also 2 or 3 things like that. order to do that. thanks. including the something a treatment of extraneous up against it was this at the moment. if you didn't say by government at home, some of the mining company, some more responsible mining companies to increase closure. i do all that i do ask if you can, if that is why they are really feel involved maintained doors in africa in south africa, we has of course,

a value of automate lot of the automated doors all out put enforcements. i think africa is not the flu. i think some of the unscrupulous mon, the company explodes, fall out. he's already being experienced. we find in communities we, we work that the, the animosity and growing and anger again, some of the mani companies, especially since mani company starts moved on leaving gaping house in the ground, the goose to davis. and i'm in each and disruptive community. it takes 100. yes. for soil to rebuild itself by just a half a centimeter. add to that the fact that the world is currently using soil at a rate of 15 to a 100 times quicker than it can rebuild itself. most of the mines in africa after they've been abandoned and closed down, become waste. i'm just like this one behind me. they say that

a nation that can rebuild its toil can rebuild itself, but the prospects for african countries remain bleach. peter major is a different mining engineer, an analyst who is highly regarded in the mining and financial services industry. i sat down with him to get an understanding of how africa as a continent has been affected by these companies. p to thank you very much for joining us here on african. now, what are the negative effects of foreign mines for marketing can be good or bad? we know we need money. mining is a capital intensive business, and the more money you spend, the better it should be for the country because you're building infrastructure, you're building treatment plans, value ads, or giving people jobs. so we should have a preference for companies with lots of money that are going to do lots of nasty,

the big mining company. these are actually the best at that because they've done it . many of them for over a 100100 years. what we're seeing, you know, in a lot of africa because it's risky because it's not unstable. we're not getting very many big whining companies. whereas, 50 years ago we got a lot more. so we're getting lots of little mining companies, supposedly mining companies. we're getting a lot of nickel dime, more on pause shop, lots of skeletons, lots of mafioso. i've gangster bugs. and those are not the good investors. we need . those are not the mining companies we need. they degrade the place. they corrupt officials, they corrupt local people. they leave a mess and we just have to look at what's happened in senegal and. 5 gonna with, with thousands of thousands of literally illegal chinese wires come in there. and

the amount of mercury that they're using mercury was bad. i think, way over a 100 years ago. and most of the west there should be no mercury coming into africa . and yet that's how they're recovering. all their gold and mercury is so deadly, so poisonous and last a long time. and it's in a water supply from the ground. we haven't even mentioned about how gold mining just devastates the countryside ruins the farmland. so yeah, we got to control all mining companies that come in, they have to abide by standards. they have to be transparent. they have to be approved by proper government agencies. what about the burden of disease in the mining communities? i think got some pretty good research your thought on. yes, thanks. my team has burke, him office. the only normal thought we added or rather hated friends like wildfire

and these communities in the illegal mining camps. women are really abused in multiple ways sexually violently. they're made to work their conditions are exposed you around us. and yes, diseases. burke hello says hey, i want to think john just theory. yeah. you know what comes from sue each? if not just people are exposed to. 5 hazardous waste there expose the hazard of bacteria. they're exposed to social disease. yeah, it runs rampant. you know, you have water camps, there's no. 1 no ventilation, there's not enough grainy. there's not enough. 1 for life compared to a proper suburb that has all the amenities, and that's what's happening around band and mining camps. communities crop up around there because they use the infrastructure and they populate uncontrollably

quite often. and so all the social diseases are rapid, there are drawing rapidly and it's hard to control what land rehabilitation have you seen going on in africa? the majority of the mind i've seen going on and there is no rehabilitation and how long does it talk through to the last of mercury, you know, started i just berman. 6 companies are neutralizing cyanide, almost within days when they put that in a big pile of the damn. they are neutralizing the site as it goes in there. but ill legal wine and some standard one. you got neutralizing the side i it can be very toxic. employees know some months, maybe even a year or 2 mercury though. it's almost impossible to neutralize. it shouldn't be

dealing with it at all. that will last for decades. it's widespread. yeah, the rehabilitation. it's not being done, especially by the smaller, below the radar, co called miners i want to call mining companies their miners, their pirates, the mafia miners. i know the mining companies in south africa once they close down, has a fund for land rehabilitation. the same happen for communities for sure. and i think there should be president, if we had a president was thinking like you, this would be one of the hydro best investment destinations on the planet. instead of being upset if you're zachary right, that the government sets the standards and government shows the standards and they get paid a lot. 5 and here they get 1.7 trillion every year to spend a please,

maybe have that for 27 years. so without a doubt, the guy with most of the money, the guy with most the power he or most responsibility, they come hand in hand. and yes, when government less companies come in, they have to monitor those companies. they have to evaluate those companies and string them. government isn't just about running for reelection every 5 years. and given out all the contracts and attenders to your friends, government is about doing much more as you pointed out, how can i help the help community? and it should be the golden rule, and then it goes between the mining company and the communities and why the company pays taxes and lease payment. but the government has a responsibility if either the appropriate part of that money goes in the community . it doesn't go to their friends in high office who have contracts outside that

town outside, that governments have huge responsibility and they're not stepping up to let's move now to the chair where a french mining company started mining the country. you rein in reserve in the 1917 . although the mind close to years ago, 20000000 tons of radioactive weight remains in the country. many 800000 people live in the area and they have no choice but to drink and farm contaminated water and land. we asked our correspondent to investigate the story back. the police confiscated his camera and did the materials. he spoke to us on condition of anonymity or a local missouri government. edu, who don't cur, compared to the current situation. there are several mining companies that will soon set up for the exportation of uranium in the august regions. yoga is region

everywhere. there is uranium and with now the rise of the price of uranium. there is a risk of having factories almost everywhere manella. on the other hand, the state is not careful about the percentage. it requires you know, the global atomic company, which has created a subsidiary called some eda, which involves operating a mind, but its level at the state has 20 percent of capital in the company has 80 percent . but it is against nature because society has neither the soil nor the country, nor the minerals, it is nothing. and on the other hand, the state of niger already had a potential them puts on, for instance, the people who have been trained at the common industry for 40 to 45 years after the common had been closed. so these people could be recovered from the state to raise its capital and little them with our government did not do it. it was badly negotiated with the state and all that have been 10 to 20 percent of

all work done by this company. we don't love to read that need to be read, you could did it. we go now to the world's most town, according to pollution expert, come away, which is 100 kilometers to the north of the zambia capital soccer was one posed to a quarter of a 1000000 people led them in silver. mine is the oldest in the country and dates back to the beginning of the previous century. while already in 1956 doctors were warning of high rates of lead poisoning. the mind remained open for another 50 years, only coating down in 1989. international lawyers have commenting, filed a lawsuit against anglo american, on behalf of the children of cub way, whose brains and other organs have been poisoned. we spoke with a former minor this lucy, dick m, yeah, mount over dest, go and the,

put the s, d, they mailed it. and then you find that the to contain lead and the lady, the bad it to our budget issues and into easy applicable to young ones. it defeats their thinking capacity to tell the truth is people hopefully they see me thinking they didn't want to inform any body the out to come of waking the boys and i see places they didn't people where day sometimes you find that somebody may look to be sick as if easy, suffering from it and have the hair both you stomach the body and becoming sick,

quasi the do i see inside and it wasn't in these the joints he, they make a joints here, the stomach and oh, the movie i bought parts twice in fact they are wendy, somebody goes, there was do they operate? you find the story, the lady here in these board and bought the what the lady was acting to the body tissues as it is out, many people died, but we're not dordy. why do i? because this boy is john disposal. he's my grandson for this problem of getting affected with started in 2018. that is when it was that when i was doing this problem from that time on, i used to taken to clinic for treatment, which took about 2 to 3 years,

then abruptly treatment. it stopped from that time to did the if it's that of in the, to the boy in someone who showed tempered andy, sometimes the answers roughly. so these are the things that i've noticed from him. i'm reminding environmental remediation project. there are bank projects that to help with effects of lead conway. so so far they have committed a point $5000000.00 in their remediation projects. the 1st part of it was due in the canal and basically the conduit will materialize. moving on the morning from the on my to,

to exit to wall left using as a disposal. as much more that can be done. but at least so far so good. we can to genius. we since 100 children delayed as a 6 month period, replaced the steps in ship waves from the country and brought into sharp focus. the dangers of mineral processing. correspondent lou david has more than for states in niger risk, nor is which in minerals like gold within it, just engage in mining and leave it most in the just to know we have personal protective equipment while working with the gold or other mine and for the lead of 6 to be applauded. we just take home, some people, if you walk into the homes, struck the gold, these strokes content leap. i want. the cord was structured, the leave del to be released and spread throughout the house to get up and help to drive the gold or expose them to high levels of lead. just as a feltman said,

fills an outbreak of lead poisoning and at least 7 villages in the state. within 6 months, more than 400 children died in these crisis. the sent shock waves throughout the country and broke into sharp focus, the benches of mineral processing, and the last impoverished ruin area. to be occasional, if he'll call to both communities where hundreds of people assume affected by lead poisoning, unfinished levels of lead, without inside most of the hopes, what's from the community will also have high levels of lead. children who survive to crisis had dangerous levels of lead, as she can now contested anglo american and then mining companies for climate. but they avoided us some heartbreaking stories and lingering questions, the most vital of which is how do companies continue to get away without owning up to their responsibilities?

well, that brings us to the end of this week show. we hope we help shed a little light on a very real problem that is facing many communities across africa. next week we'll be exploring the fascinating world of p and c, y, but a military company will take you behind the scenes and off exactly what is happening in africa until then from me and the team here in africa's city of gold. goodbye.

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with the discovery of the new world, at the end of the 15th century, there appeared atlantic slave dre. the slave traders from european countries started building forth on the western coast of the african continent to transport the african inhabitants to america, to be forced into hard labor. until the middle of the 17th century. portugal had played the main role in this atrocious business. then great britain, france and the netherlands took the leadership for the span of 400 years of legal and illegal slave trade. about 17000000 people were forcefully shipped across the atlantic. not including those who died on the way due to unbearable living conditions. modern historians estimate that for each slave ship to america,

there were 5 who died while captured during transportation, and cruel obliteration of rebellion. this ruthless people tre practice by the leading european countries, took away tens of millions of african lives. the organisation of united nations classifies the trans atlantic slave trade as one of the gravest human rights abuses in the history of humanity. this is the biggest act of deportation of people ever seen by mankind. ah, look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such short or is it conflict with the 1st law of we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. and the point obviously is to create

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