Africa: World Bank Study Highlights Artisinal Mining Challenges in Central Africa

May 23, 2016 | Mining Review Africa
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Women have been known to break boundaries which have persisted to box them into certain classifications of occupations, mining has also been one of those jobs. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), like many other African countries is rich with mining minerals including the ASM sector, however, Congolese women in Kivu, east of DRC, are deprived of a share in this wealth, says the World Bank.