'A wonderful accomplishment': success for cleanup of Nigeria's deadly lead pollution

Children in the mining town of Anka were dying each day at the height of the crisis, but now poisoning cases have been virtually wiped outFor five years, Frederick Chukwuemeze had the grim task of treating children poisoned by lead in Anka, a mining town in north-west Nigeria.Since 2010, more than 600 children have died from lead poisoning in Zamfara state and hundreds more have been left with brain damage and physical disabilities as a result of hazardous artisanal gold mining. Continue reading...