{"id":39545,"date":"2025-10-14T15:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/10\/14\/gold-rush-in-western-kenya-miners-risk-health-and-safety-in-kakamega-county-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:03:43","slug":"gold-rush-in-western-kenya-miners-risk-health-and-safety-in-kakamega-county-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/10\/14\/gold-rush-in-western-kenya-miners-risk-health-and-safety-in-kakamega-county-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold rush in western Kenya: Miners risk health and safety in Kakamega county"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Miners in Kenya risk their lives every day to extract gold 30 meters below the Earth&rsquo;s surface.\u00a0With the recent gold rush in the country, artisanal mining is raising concerns over negative environmental consequences and poor labor conditions.\u00a0Our colleagues at France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions Lucile Chaussoy, Fabien Foug\u00e8re, and Joseph Bohbot\u00a0and FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Florent Marchais have this report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miners in Kenya risk their lives every day to extract gold 30 meters below the Earth&rsquo;s surface.\u00a0With the recent gold rush in the country, artisanal mining is raising concerns over negative environmental consequences and poor labor conditions.\u00a0Our colleagues at France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions Lucile Chaussoy, Fabien Foug\u00e8re, and Joseph Bohbot\u00a0and FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Florent Marchais have this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-39545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}