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Workers trapped in the mines on May 9, 2018. Six miners were trapped in Nyatike copper mines after the wall caved in. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard] Four gold miners were on Friday evening buried ...

The constituency was established for the 1988 elections. Being a semiarid region, residents of Nyatike mainly depend on fishing as the major economic activity. Around the areas of Macalder and Osiri, smallscale gold mining has also become a source of livelihood.

The closure of over 40 gold mining and processing plants in Migori County in the past three weeks has unmasked the powerful tycoons behind the lucrative enterprise that is also responsible for the suffering of thousands of workers who have for years been exploited by the owners for years.

The Migori Governor, Zachary Obado addresses the residents at Macalder, Nyatike Sub County where six people died at a mines site. Photo by George Agimba/KNA. The residents of Macalder, Nyatike Sub County take a closer look at point where six gold miners were buried by a rolling stone at a mines site. Photo by George Agimba/KNA.

An estimated 8,000 children are working in gold mines in Nyatike, Suna East, Kuria West and Suna West sub counties. Some children have been trapped in collapsed mines, suffocated or exposed to the deadly effects of mercury. Migori police boss Joseph Nthenge says security agencies have done their ...

Mar 31, 2018· An estimated 8,000 children are working in gold mines in Nyatike, Suna East, Kuria West and Suna West sub counties. Some children have been trapped in collapsed mines, suffocated or exposed to the ...

An estimated 15,000 children are working in gold mines in the districts of Nyatike and Migori in western Kenya''s Nyanza province, either in actual extraction or in ancillary services such as selling food, according to the local Children''s Welfare Office. This number rises significantly at .

Oct 06, 2019· A man comes out of a mine with a sack of goldcontaining ores at the OsiriMatanda goldmines in Nyatike, Migori County. ... Tobias is still hopeful that one day he .

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Sep 12, 2019· Four gold mining Companies in Migori County have been closed and several others issued with notices to close after they were found operating contrary to the Mining Regulation Act, 2016.

May 20, 2019· A mine field abandoned by Chinese company LIjin Mining Ltd. on May 7, 2019, after the high court in Migori, Kenya, ruled that they should stop mining gold in the area.

Aug 07, 2019· Adhiambo is just one of hundreds of women in Nyatike Subcounty, Migori County, in western Kenya engaged in gold mining and continually exposed to debilitating health risks. Nyalal Atieno, also an artisanal miner at Osiri Matanda, one of the major gold mining sites in Kenya, remains sickly to date, suffering regular bouts of bloody diarrhoea ...

Mar 29, 2018· Gold mining in Migori''s Nyatike area is partly done by artisanal miners, whose rudimentary techniques have continued to leave particles of gold in the mining debris that is now attracting firms ...

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Mar 27, 2018· NYATIKE, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) Scorching sun beats down on half a dozen women as they carry large sacks of crushed ore on their backs at the OsiriMatanda gold mine .

May 08, 2018· Six gold miners were Tuesday evening buried alive at Copper hill gold mine in South East Kadem location in Nyatike, Migori County after the mine they were in .

Four gold miners buried alive in Nyatike mine : The Standard. Four gold miners were on Friday evening buried alive and two others seriously injured at Matanda gold mine in Nyatike subcounty, Migori. . with the law on safety and mining. Macalder mines . Chat en direct

NYATIKE, KENYA Scorching sun beats down on half a dozen women as they carry large sacks of crushed ore on their backs at the OsiriMatanda gold mine near Kenya''s border with .

Aug 07, 2019· Despite high health risks, women reluctant to abandon trade in gold Wednesday August 7 2019 Women mining gold at the Macalder mines in Nyatike Constituency in Migori County.

May 08, 2018· Six gold miners have been buried alive in Migori county when the mine''s walls collapsed earlier this evening. The six were making their way out of copper hill mine in south East Kadem location ...

Many young men in Nyatike, where gold mining is the main economic activity, have sad stories to tell. Fatal injuries, young widows, school dropouts, heavy HIV burden and dire environmental ...

Tunnels of gold: How Migori locals risk lives to make money ... the women trudge along a busy path as they head to the gold mines that has brought joy and misery to this once sleepy village which ...

Apr 28, 2016· Gold miners at the Macalder mines in Nyatike in Migori County, where cases of children working in violation of the labour laws is the order of the day. [Photo: Malachi Motano] "I would rather work for people here at the mine, who will at the end of the day give me money to buy food for my family," says Charles Otieno 12.

A gold mining site in Nyatike Photo: Peter Orengo: It is ''money come, money go'' for residents of Nyatike in Migori, who ironically live in extreme poverty and on the fast lane, despite sitting ...
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