Brazil agencies launch raid against illegal gold miners in Yanomami lands
Boa Vista, Brazil Reuters Brazil’s environmental and Indigenous agencies have launched an enforcement operation in the Amazon rainforest to expel thousands of illegal gold miners blamed for causing a humanitarian crisis among the Yanomami people, officials said on Wednesday. Armed agents of the government’s environmental protection agency Ibama, deployed by helicopter and motor boat since […]
Dozens of Yanomami children hospitalised in northern Brazil amid health crisis
Boa Vista, Brazil Reuters Dozens of Indigenous children suffering from malnutrition and acute diseases have been hospitalised in northern Brazil, with relatives in hammocks holding their emaciated frames in scenes that underscore the gravity of a public health crisis. A nurse talks to a mother belonging to the Yanomami Indigenous group, whose son is treated […]
Brazil declares emergency over deaths of Yanomami children from malnutrition
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Brazil’s ministry of health has declared a medical emergency in the Yanomami territory, the country’s largest Indigenous reservation bordering Venezuela, following reports of children dying of malnutrition and other diseases caused by illegal gold mining. A decree published on Friday by the incoming government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said […]