{"id":192879,"date":"2025-03-05T18:36:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-mining-in-toxic-lead-waste-poisons-children\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T18:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:36:30","slug":"zambia-mining-in-toxic-lead-waste-poisons-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-mining-in-toxic-lead-waste-poisons-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Mining in Toxic Lead Waste Poisons Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em>Comprehensive Mine Remediation, End to Hazardous Mining Urgently Needed in Kabwe<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the Zambian city of Kabwe, children suffer severe health effects due to lead poisoning because of extreme pollution from the toxic lead waste of a former mine.<\/li>\n<li>Zambia&#8217;s government is facilitating new hazardous lead and zinc mining and processing of the toxic waste, posing major additional health risks to children.<\/li>\n<li>The Zambian government should suspend operations, revoke licenses of companies involved in the&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503050253.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comprehensive Mine Remediation, End to Hazardous Mining Urgently Needed in Kabwe In the Zambian city of Kabwe, children suffer severe health effects due to lead poisoning because of extreme pollution from the toxic lead waste of a former mine. Zambia&#8217;s government is facilitating new hazardous lead and zinc mining and processing of the toxic waste, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":192880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00581800:5e5f1b6db4f7357ba9261f09100d901e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,7371,7358,6477,257,20273,254,12391,11569,4709,881],"class_list":["post-192879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-children","tag-lead","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-poisons","tag-south-africa-today","tag-toxic","tag-waste","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00581800:5e5f1b6db4f7357ba9261f09100d901e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}