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YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Rain had turned the dirt road into thick mud, but Mabel Djoumessi kept walking with her 9-month-old son, Kenfack, strapped to her back.

Rubble set on fire as health and frontline workers Healthcare workers protest at the Elikya Ebola Treatment Center in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Constant Same Bagalwa)

Tens of thousands of so-called “artisanal” miners work illegally in disused gold and platinum mines formerly operated by mining outfits, or else dig their own mines in search of deposits, often working without proper safety equipment.

File photo from 2014 showing the Ndassima gold mine in the CAR’s Ouaka Prefecture in 2014. Ndassima is the country’s only industrialized gold mine, and has been the locus of deadly fighting. Image credit: By Un Security Council – https://undocs.org/pdf?symbol=en/S/2014/452, Public Domain, Link

“An attack on any place of worship constitutes an attack on our collective humanity,” the bishops of Nigeria said.

Students listen to the teacher in the Holy Infant high school, in Yaounde, Cameron, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (Credit: Angel Ngwe/AP.)

The efforts are in response to Pope Leo XIV’s appeals during his visit to the country earlier this year.

Sr. Francine Katho of the Congregation of the Servants of Jesus in Bunia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, ministers to patients with Ebola. (Courtesy of Francine Katho)

Cars drive through an intersection near the “I Love My Country” monument in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on 12 Sept. 2025. (AP photo / Welba Yama Pascal, file)