With the war over, government's efforts to get them out of the mines and back into schools are proving to be painfully slow. No-one seems to know the exact number of children working at the ...

The International Labour Organization estimates more than 1 million children work in mines and quarries worldwide, a problem particularly acute in Africa, where poverty, limited access to ...

Families in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have become dependent on the income produced by their children working in cobalt mines, a new report by Canadian NGO IMPACT ...

After revelations of child labor and treacherous conditions ... visiting industrial and artisanal mines in the country’s three largest cobalt mining towns. Houreld is The Washington Post ...

NASARAWA, Nigeria — Dressed in a faded pink dress, 6-year-old Juliet Samaniya squats under scorching skies to chip at a jagged white rock with a stone tool. Dust coats her tiny hands and her ...

Ibrahim said he knows that children are working at his mines and others he buys from, but he said many of the children are orphans or poor. “It is dangerous, but the work helps them survive ...