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Africa

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    The World's Most Toxic Town

    Use reporting on Zambia’s lead mines by Damian Carrington and Larry C. Price to explore the causes, effects and responses to toxic lead poisoning.

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    June 13, 2017
  • View from the Invisible Children office in Dungu, DRC. Image by David Gauvey Herbert. Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2016.
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    Education Resource

    Meet the Journalist: David Gauvey Herbert

    It has been nearly five years since the San Diego-based NGO Invisible Children uploaded "Kony 2012"...

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    David Gauvey Herbert
    Grantee
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  • Moderator Susan Glasser addresses panelists Paula Bronstein, Sarah Holewinski, Sarah Topol, and Cassandra Vinograd. Image by Sydney Combs. United States, 2017.
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    Pulitzer Center Update

    Gender Lens: Women in Conflict Zones

    “I was certainly a very accidental war correspondent,” Politico’s chief international affairs...

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    June 12, 2017
  • Property Rights panelists (left to right) LaShawn Jefferson, Amy Toensing, Paola Totaro, and Indira Sarma speak at the Pulitzer Center Gender Lens conference. Image by Jin Ding. United States, 2017.
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    Gender Lens: Property Rights—What’s Land Got to Do With It?

    During the Property Rights panel at the Pulitzer Center Gender Lens Conference on June 3, 2017, the...

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    June 12, 2017
  • Panelist Allison Shelley describes her work in India, Nepal, Nigeria, and Senegal, during the Global Health panel at Pulitzer Center Gender Lens Conference. Image by Jin Ding. United States, 2017.
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    Gender Lens: Sustainable Solutions in Global Health

    On day one of the Pulitzer Center’s Gender Lens Conference, June 3, 2017, a wide-ranging panel of...

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    June 9, 2017
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    A woman with her child in the International Medical Corps hospital in Juba, South Sudan. Image by Jane Ferguson. South Sudan, 2017.
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    PART OF: South Sudan in Crisis

    20 Million Starving to Death: Inside the Worst Famine Since World War II

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    Jane Ferguson
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    June 5, 2017
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    Atop Black Mountain

More than 6 million metric tonnes of lead slag form Black Mountain, a 30-meter pile of toxic lead waste that still contains a sizable quantity of lead, copper, manganese and zinc. Due to a depressed economy and lack of employment among many of Kabwe's residents, scavengers toil daily to mine some of the richer veins of lead slag for resale to reprocessing smelters in Zambia. The work is dangerous and sometimes deadly. Weak tunnels are dug to reach the brown layers of slag, which…
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    PART OF: The Black Death of Kabwe

    Subsistence Mining at Kabwe's Black Mountain

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    Larry C. Price
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    June 2, 2017
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  • Lead levels in Kabwe are as much as 100 times recommended safety levels. Image by Larry C. Price. Zambia, 2017.
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    This Week: The World’s Most Toxic Town

    The World's Most Toxic Town Larry C. Price and Damian Carrington For almost a century, the town of...

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    May 31, 2017
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    Kabwe, Zambia is Africa's most toxic city.
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    PART OF: The Black Death of Kabwe

    The Heavy Legacy of Lead in the World's Most Toxic Town—in Pictures

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    May 30, 2017
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    Subsistence mining at Kabwe's Black Mountain.
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    PART OF: The Black Death of Kabwe

    The World's Most Toxic Town: The Terrible Legacy of Zambia's Lead Mines

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    May 30, 2017
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    The Black Death of Kabwe

    Years of unmitigated contamination from Zambia's largest lead mine have created a toxic nightmare...

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    For a few cigarettes, a Congolese policeman will guide you around Dungu’s Belgian colonial-era chateau. Image by David Gauvey Herbert. Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2016.
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    PART OF: The Last Days of Joseph Kony

    DRC: UN Peacekeepers in Dungu

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    David Gauvey Herbert
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    May 25, 2017
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