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Search continues for Burkina Faso miners
The head of Canadian owners of the Burkina Faso mine, says the rescue mission is going further underground.
The search for eight miners who have been trapped in a zinc mine for the last month is still ongoing. We hear from the president and CEO of the Canadian company that owns the mine.
And health authorities in Mozambique have declared a polio outbreak after a child in the country’s north-eastern Tete province contracted the disease.
Photo: Rescue workers at the Perkoa mine in Burkina Faso. Credit: Reuters.
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