Made public in December, a new study suggests that there is a new therapeutic target for Silicosis, an incurable disease. The latter affects a huge number of Moroccan workers, especially those who worked for Charbonnage du Maroc, a fromer coal mining company in Jerada.
A former miner in northern France, Abdallah Samate has been fighting for almost thirty years to prove to the world the discrimination Moroccan labourers were subjected to in the 80s.
A few days after the emergence of social unrest in the city of Jerada, the Minister of Energy, Mining and Sustainable Development revealed the amount of money spent on the province during 14 years. The numbers made public by the Minister were meanwhile backed by others indicated by Driss Benhima, who has headed the ministry when the coal mine closed. Aside from official numbers, were these miners compensated as promised ?
Coal mining has been the activity that kept Jerada’s miners busy since 1927. Extracting anthracite, a type of coal that contains relatively pure carbon, these workers were exposed to hard conditions that had a huge impact on their future lives. Alongside the economic and demographic aspects thoroughly explained in one of Yabiladi’s previous articles, and which have affected the lives of these miners, they had to worry about the potential health issues associated with mining
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