The U.N. has identified Kabwe, a city of almost 300,000 people in Zambia, as one of the most polluted places on the planet.

In the Zambian city of Kabwe, children suffer severe health effects due to lead poisoning because of extreme pollution from the toxic lead waste of a former mine. Zambia’s government is ...

An earlier version of this article said a subsidiary of Anglo American is active in Kabwe. The mining company was present in the area from 1925-1974. The failure of Zambia’s government to ...

In Zambia's Kabwe region, up to 200,000 people face devastating health consequences from decades of lead pollution, with 95% ...

In Zambia, Hybrid now plans to expand the program ... envious neighbors and better-fed children. By the end of the meeting, two dozen people had signed up to buy chickens, hoping that all of ...

In the Zambian city of Kabwe, children suffer severe health effects due to lead poisoning because of extreme pollution from the toxic lead waste of a former mine. Zambia's government is facilitating ...

Zambia's government is facilitating new hazardous lead and zinc mining and processing of the toxic waste, posing major additional health risks to children. The Zambian government should suspend ...

On August 13, 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared the multi-country mpox ...

Four mining companies have been accused of causing an acid spill in the watershed the most important river in Zambia ...

Zambia's government did not respond to AFP's ... and processing lead waste at the expense of children's health," HRW's children's rights director Juliane Kippenberg said in the statement.

What started as a donation to Global Samaritan has evolved into a new initiative, providing hundreds of Abilene residents ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Wednesday that unveiled harmful mining practices in Zambia, specifically at Kabwe, the capital of Zambia’s Central Province. The report accused the Zambian ...