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Zambia’s lead mining poisoning children

Name: Zambia’s lead mining poisoning children
Uploaded: 2017-10-14T11:19:57Z
Duration: 2 min 11 s
Description: Zambia’s economy was built on mining. But more than a century later children are still feeling the aftereffects of years of toxins polluting the environment.

Zambia’s economy was built on mining. But more than a century later children are still feeling the aftereffects of years of toxins polluting the environment.

Zambia‘s economy was built on mining. But more than a century later children are still feeling the aftereffects of years of toxins polluting the environment.

They often ingest lead when they are playing.

Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports from Kabwe.

By Haru Mutasa