Children bear brunt of poisonous gold mining

Children are developing deformities linked to their parents’ use of mercury to extract the precious metal. GRAPHIC |NMG

Fidel Omitta lies on a thin blanket spread on the floor of his mother’s house in Osiri Matanda, some 30 kilometres from Migori town. He is unable to make any meaningful movement.

Aged five years, Omitta should be outside playing with his peers, but a fresh wound on his right hand, laboured breathing and the permanent sadness on his face, tell the story of a stolen childhood.

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