A gold mine in Bambari, Central African Republic, in 2014. Thousands of people across many African countries work in what is known as artisanal and small-scale mining.
In Chocó, a remote region, “pain, hunger and homelessness await” survivors of last week’s earthquake, the governor said. Shakira visited to help draw awareness.
Topos Azteca, a Mexican volunteer rescue group that works worldwide and helped after the Sept. 11 attacks, arrived in Colombia after searching for survivors in Venezuela.
“We heard them screaming,” said one rescuer in Cali, where emergency workers and volunteers are racing against time to find the living trapped in the rubble.
Firefighters rescuing Diana Marcela Troncoso from a collapsed building in Cali, Colombia, on Tuesday, more than 24 hours after a powerful earthquake struck the western part of the country.
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