Afghan Mining

Young Afghan Boys Work in Dangerous Mines As Afghanistan Prioritizes Coal

By Kern Hendricks
June 2, 2022, 10:59pm

SAMANGAN, Afghanistan – Noorullah says he’s 18, but he looks years younger, despite the layer of coal dust on his slender face. Huddled in the darkness of a narrow coal-mining tunnel near the Dan-e-Tor—“Black Mouth”—village in the northern Afghan province of Samangan, he looks far too young to be working deep in a coal mine. Illuminated in the thin beam of his headlight, Noorullah’s profound exhaustion is clear to see. Click here to download the article and read more.

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