How The Financial Crisis Is Killing African Children

How The Financial Crisis Is Killing African Children
Children play near an ocean-side rubbish dump in the Ela Nguema neighborhood of Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. Equatorial Guinea, co-host of the African Cup of Nations soccer tournament, will face Ivory Coast in the quarter-finals at Malabo Stadium on Saturday, Feb. 4. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Children play near an ocean-side rubbish dump in the Ela Nguema neighborhood of Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. Equatorial Guinea, co-host of the African Cup of Nations soccer tournament, will face Ivory Coast in the quarter-finals at Malabo Stadium on Saturday, Feb. 4. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Gold in general has great PR. It's slick, it's hip, it's bling. But in a remote corner of West Africa, it's killing children.

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