Jul 23, 2012 | AllAfrica.com
Congo-Kinshasa: Artisanal Miners Face Uncertain Future
In a copper mine near the town of Kambove in the south-eastern province of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , one can see dozens of teenage boys with empty rice sacks on their backs, running to grab small pieces of copper forgotten in the debris and to escape rocks falling from an unloading truck up above.