“National disaster”: Catholic Environmentalist on Unregulated Mining in Western Kenya

“National disaster”: Catholic Environmentalist on Unregulated Mining in Western Kenya

A Catholic environmentalist has called on the Kenyan government to declare unregulated mining in the country’s western region a national disaster, citing its widespread negative consequences on the environment and the country’s socio-economic sector. In an interview with ACI Africa, Reagan Musoka Wafula, an official of the Laudato Si’ Movement in Africa (LSM) based in Kenya’s Western region, said that ongoing activities are not only threatening …