Church mourns victims of CAR mining disaster as government closes site

Church mourns victims of CAR mining disaster as government closes site File photo from 2014 showing the Ndassima gold mine in the CAR’s Ouaka Prefecture in 2014. Ndassima is the country’s only industrialized gold mine, and has been the locus of deadly fighting. Photo: Un Security Council – https://undocs.org/pdf?symbol=en/S/2014/452, Public Domain, Link

The Church in the Central African Republic has joined the nation in mourning the deaths of more than 100 people who died following the collapse of an artisanal gold mine on Tuesday, August 18. In a statement August 20, the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Bouar, Msgr Miroslaw Gucwa said it was with “immense…

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