Illegal Minning Archives - Security Digest https://securitydigestng.com/tag/illegal-minning/ Reporting Nigeria security Sat, 20 Jun 2020 12:50:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://securitydigestng.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-Security-Digest-Favicon-32x32.png Illegal Minning Archives - Security Digest https://securitydigestng.com/tag/illegal-minning/ 32 32 Feature: Criminal networks fuel community violence in a bid to exploit untapped mineral deposits in the North West https://securitydigestng.com/2020/06/20/feature-criminal-networks-fuel-community-violence-in-a-bid-to-exploit-untapped-mineral-deposits-in-the-north-west/ https://securitydigestng.com/2020/06/20/feature-criminal-networks-fuel-community-violence-in-a-bid-to-exploit-untapped-mineral-deposits-in-the-north-west/#respond Sat, 20 Jun 2020 12:50:28 +0000 https://securitydigestng.com/?p=14863 Criminal networks fuel community violence in a bid to exploit untapped mineral deposits in the North West. By Maurice Ogbonnaya,  Africa’s artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector has development potential. At their peak in 2017 these mines in Niger employed as many as 600 000 people and created opportunities for local infrastructural development. But these prospects are undermined by […]

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