The U.N. has identified Kabwe, a city of almost 300,000 people in Zambia, as one of the most polluted places on the planet.

“It has made nearly every person, every mother, to have their child contaminated, because the lead levels are so rampant,” says Cornelius Katiti, a father from Kabwe, Zambia, whose three children are ...

Between 1906 and 1994, Kabwe was home to Broken Hill, one of the world's largest lead and zinc mines. For decades, highly toxic lead particles were blown across town, carried by the wind and the ...

In one former mining town in Zambia, more than 200,000 children ... Decades of mining left some 6.4 million tons of lead-bearing waste behind in Kabwe. Kathy Short Reporter for DW Africa covering ...

a father from Kabwe, Zambia, whose three children are affected by lead poisoning. For decades, the town has struggled with remediating 6.4 million tonnes of toxic lead waste left behind by a ...