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Mining giant Anglo American said on Monday that it would oppose any appeals by a group of Zambian women and children who are suing it for alleged mass lead poisoning. Will Ross
The Johannesburg High Court had on Friday allowed the claimants to appeal against an Africa editor, BBC World Service
earlier ruling that threw out their class action lawsuit against Anglo American South Africa (AASA). There are reports from Mali that at least 100 civilians are being held by suspected jihadists after being kidnapped last week.
The lawsuit claims that more than 140,000 people may have been poisoned, over generations, by exposure to toxins from a lead mine in Zambia's Kabwe district, where AASA was a shareholder from 1925 to 1974. Local residents told the AFP news agency that they were travelling in three buses when the attackers forced them to drive in the direction of a forest between Bandiagara and Bankass.
Anglo American said "it has every sympathy for the situation in Kabwe, but is not responsible for it". Six days on, there has been no sign of the dozens of hostages.
A joint statement by Mbuyisa Moleele Attorneys and Leigh This area of Mali's Mopti region has seen frequent attacks by Islamist fighters.
Day, the law firms representing the claimants, said the ruling was a "crucial step towards achieving justice" for the women and children. Following several recent attacks in the area, people are getting increasingly frustrated.
The Johannesburg High Court judge Justice Leonie Wendell said that there were "compelling reasons to grant the appeal" and that the appeal had "reasonable prospects of success", the lawyers said in a statement on Monday. Civil society organisations in Bandiagara have been staging protests denouncing the fact that many people have been displaced and calling for a military camp to be set up to protect the local communities.
They added that the claimants had "clear" evidence to support their allegations. Following a coup in 2021, Mali's military rulers ordered thousands of international troops to pull out leaving the country even more fragile.
"From the early 1970s children were Jihadist attacks began in northern Mali more than a decade ago and have spread to the centre of the country as well as neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.
already falling ill and dying of lead poisoning, and a high proportion of them were This prompted military coups in all three nations.
suffering from massive blood lead levels." More on this topic:
The case is now expected to go to South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal later this year. Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to form joint force to fight jihadists
The coups that promised - and failed - to bring safety
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