“More than 400 children in Zamfara State have died from lead poisoning according to official estimates. Unless the promised funds are released immediately, cleanup of the contaminated areas won’t be able to start until after next year’s rainy season, leaving thousands more children at risk of death and permanent disability.”
Photo: Children work at the gold processing site in Bagega. Nigeria 2012 © Olga Overbeek
Nigeria: MSF Treats Children for Lead Poisoning After Long Delay in Clean-Up
Three years after the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) responded to an unprecedented outbreak of lead poisoning in Nigeria’s Zamfara state, MSF is finally able to treat children in the badly affected village of Bagega now that a long-delayed program to remediate lead contamination is underway.
![An engineer stands near a sign comparing the human body to a train engine in Lagos, Nigeria on April 14, 2013.
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An engineer stands near a sign comparing the human body to a train engine in Lagos, Nigeria on April 14, 2013.
[Credit : Jon Gambrell/AP]
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Samuel James, Water of My Land: The Niger Delta’s Illicit Fuel Trade
Fires from hundreds of illicit fuel refineries burn every night throughout the Niger Delta. Concealed deep within mangrove swamps and raffia forests, men, women and children work by flashlight, manually tossing stolen crude oil into burning pits to keep the refining process going. Flames explode momentarily then recede into darkness.
Photographer Samuel James will be showing this body of work at the Half King. There will be an opening on Tuesday the 19th of February at 7:30PM. Sam will be joined by Stacey D. Clarkson of Harper’s Magazine to discuss the work.
![City of Lagos, The Biafran War, 1967.
[Credit : Bruno Barbey]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me1u6dQIVA1r44q44o1_1280.jpg)
City of Lagos, The Biafran War, 1967.
[Credit : Bruno Barbey]
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![City of Ibadan, 1974.
[Credit : Bruno Barbey]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma3g0fR5QD1r44q44o1_1280.jpg)
![A man arranges fruits in a wheelbarrow along a flooded street in Lagos, October 8, 2012.
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A man arranges fruits in a wheelbarrow along a flooded street in Lagos, October 8, 2012.
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Photo: A young boy works at an illegal gold mine in Dareta, Nigeria. © David Gilkey/NPR
If you missed the Twitter chat last week with NPR’s Jason Beaubien & @MSF_USA on lead poisoning in #NigeriaGold, check out the highlights here.
Photo: Four-wheel drive is no match for the mud on the road to a gold mine in northern Nigeria. David Gilkey/NPR
In Nigerian Gold Rush, Lead Poisons Thousands Of Children
NPR featured our project treating lead poisoning in northern Nigeria, a crisis caused by unsafe mining and ore processing. Watch the video and slideshow here.
Today at noon ET NPR’s Jason Beaubien is doing a live Twitter chat on lead poisoning in Nigeria. Follow @nprGlobalhealth and #NigeriaGold.
![People travel on a canoe in the floating slum of Makoko in Lagos, Nigeria on Sept. 27, 2012.
[Credit : Sunday Alamba/AP]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb2rjdF1cZ1r44q44o1_1280.jpg)
People travel on a canoe in the floating slum of Makoko in Lagos, Nigeria on Sept. 27, 2012.
[Credit : Sunday Alamba/AP]
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![A Yoruba woman worship to appease the goddess of the Osun river and other spirits in Osogbo, Nigeria, Friday Aug. 24, 2012. Many of the worshipers observing the centuries-old ethnic Yoruba celebration in southwestern Nigeria are Christians and Muslims, but they say one cannot pray to enough gods in a country overwhelmed by grinding poverty, rampant ethnic violence and the ravages of AIDS and malaria.
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A Yoruba woman worship to appease the goddess of the Osun river and other spirits in Osogbo, Nigeria, Friday Aug. 24, 2012. Many of the worshipers observing the centuries-old ethnic Yoruba celebration in southwestern Nigeria are Christians and Muslims, but they say one cannot pray to enough gods in a country overwhelmed by grinding poverty, rampant ethnic violence and the ravages of AIDS and malaria.
[Credit : Sunday Alamba/AP]
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![A boy scout sits after a parade marking the International Workers’ Day celebration in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, May 1, 2012.
[Credit : Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3eggzSAEe1r44q44o1_1280.jpg)
A boy scout sits after a parade marking the International Workers’ Day celebration in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, May 1, 2012.
[Credit : Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters]
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![Ibo guerilla, Civil War in Biafra, Nigeria, July 1968.
[Credit : Gilles Caron]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m009itk1T01r44q44o1_400.jpg)
Ibo guerilla, Civil War in Biafra, Nigeria, July 1968.
[Credit : Gilles Caron]
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![Civil War in Biafra, Nigeria, July 1968.
[Credit : Gilles Caron]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m00962UByr1r44q44o1_1280.jpg)
Civil War in Biafra, Nigeria, July 1968.
[Credit : Gilles Caron]
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![An Igbo victim, Civil War in Biafra, Nigeria, 1968.
[Credit : Gilles Caron]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzaf03MMR61r44q44o1_1280.jpg)
An Igbo victim, Civil War in Biafra, Nigeria, 1968.
[Credit : Gilles Caron]
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