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Alto Alegre (Brazil), Jul 11 ??(EFE) (Camera: Alba Santandreu / Joedson Alves / Sesai) .- The Yanomami land is an infinite horizon of untouched jungle, but from the sky the wounds opened by the gold rush are visible. Illegal miners have spread across Brazil's largest indigenous territory and are now threatening to spread old and new diseases, such as malaria and COVID-19.FOOTAGE OF THE YANOMAMI LAND AND COMMUNITIES WHO LIVE IN IT.SOUNDBITES AND TRANSLATIONS OF:EDUARDO YEKUANA, LEADER OF THE WAIKAS VILLAGE:"We are very worried because of the 'garimpos' (non-official miners) because they are contaminating our rivers and bringing diseases."JOAO RIBAMAR, RESIDENT OF A VILLAGE IN THE SURUCUCU REGION (speaking non-native Portuguese):"Dirty water, humid rain, dirty water, ill women, children drink water and have diarrhoea, worms, stomach worms, coughs and sore throats.""There's no river, just small streams, there's no big fish, there's hunger.""I bless it when it comes, when the river gives me food, fish, when I hunt, when women get shrimp.""There's a lot of malaria, a lot of illnesses."
Mali, Africa's third largest gold producer, has recorded a drop in exports, partly due to decreased artisanal mining. Industrial mining is also set to drop to 44.9 tonnes in 2015 from 45.9 last year. Ciara Lee reports.
Images showing the site in Mali where a tunnel of a gold mine collapsed, killing at least 70 people according to local sources. IMAGES
Relatives of miners wait for news outside the La Esperanza gold mine after a fire killed 27 workers in a remote area of the Arequipa region in southern Peru. A short circuit caused the fire, which broke out in a tunnel inside the mine, according to police and the public prosecutor's office. IMAGES
The World Health Organization says it is assessing the threats to public health after fighters in Sudan occupied a national laboratory holding samples of a range of deadly diseases. "The team on the ground, and with our bio-risk and biosafety teams here, are carrying out an extensive risk assessment," WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan tells reporters, after fighters occupied a national public laboratory in Khartoum that holds samples of diseases including polio and measles. SOUNDBITE
Madrid, Oct 8 (EFE) .- (Camera: Archive) Spain has been at low risk of covid transmission since Thursday, for the first time since the end of July 2020, with a cumulative incidence of 48.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days.A situation that has been achieved thanks to the vaccination campaign (77.6% of the population already has the complete schedule) and the restrictions imposed by the communities, as well as the individual protection measures in recent months.ARCHIVE VIDEO OF THE SITUATION IN SPAIN
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