Uganda: Children forced into gold mining amid school closures

Schools in Uganda have been closed for more than a year and a half because of the pandemic – longer than anywhere else in the world – according to the UN.

Schools in Uganda have been closed for more than a year and a half because of the coronavirus pandemic. That is longer than anywhere else in the world, according to the United Nations.
In the absence of education, some children say their only option now is to dig for gold in mines.
Al Jazeera’s Victoria Gatenby reports.

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