Nigeria: Mining - FG Releases U.S.$3 Million for Lead Poisoning

4 February 2013

The Federal Government has provided nearly U.S.$3m in long-delayed financing to clean up part of an area where lead poisoning has killed hundreds of children, Doctors Without Borders said on Thursday.

The lead poisoning crisis in northwest Zamfara state that first came to light in 2010 was called the worst such epidemic "in modern history" by Human Rights Watch, with an official death toll saying 400 children were killed across the state.

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