Liberia: Gold Rush Chaos Threatens Rivers, Power, and Governance

[Liberian Observer] The artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector is drifting toward a systemic crisis, with new findings suggesting that what began as a survival livelihood for rural populations is rapidly mutating into an unregulated, semi-industrial gold rush--one that now threatens not only the environment and local communities, but also the country's economic stability and governance institutions.