YAOUNDE, Cameroon — A giant hippopotamus has been rescued from an open gold mining pit in eastern Cameroon just months after the bodies of at least two others were discovered floating in a river near the same area. The region is a major gold field, but the uncoordinated digging of this precious metal, mostly by foreign mining companies, has left the […]

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