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‘Brought down by gold’: Communities and nature suffer amid Nigerian bonanza
LAGOS — Across Atorin-Ijesha in southwestern Nigeria, the clatter of stones fills the air as excavators aggressively dig into the soil. Gold miners work from dawn till dusk excavating the…