Every day, forty-six year-old Dia walks into the jungle to seek exhausting, dangerous and precarious work in the diamond pits that pockmark the landscape of Kono District in eastern Sierra Leone.
If he is lucky, he will dig for up to 10 hours in knee-deep mud to receive US$2-3 at the end of the day.
Artisanal diamond mine on the outskirts of Koidu. (Photo: Josef Skrdlik/OCCRP)
“The money…
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