Report: Police action, policy responses to artisanal mining ‘misguided’
/ 12 August 2022

Report: Police action, policy responses to artisanal mining ‘misguided’

The report by the Enhancing Africa’s Response to Transnational Organised Crime found that current enforcement and policy responses, which criminalise artisanal miners, “are misguided, counterproductive and ignore the poverty and socioeconomic drivers behind the phenomenon”

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