Across West Africa, mercury — a potent neurotoxin — remains the dominant method for extracting gold from ore in the region’s ...

In Senegal’s gold-rich Kedougou region, women and children face serious health risks from mercury exposure used in gold processing ...

Their offence? Being migrants from the region, they told reporters, regardless of whether they had legal residency papers. “We suffered there,” one woman told France’s TV5 Monde, a baby perched on her ...

Senegal ratified the Minamata Convention on ... Most of the country’s supply comes from Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana, with smaller amounts smuggled from dental clinics in Dakar ...

The stage is set for Nigeria’s 2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, quarter-final tie with Senegal. The match will take ...