MP bulldozes into US$1,2m community funds -Newsday Zimbabwe
Several villagers who were relocated to Arda Transau in Odzi from Chiadzwa in 2010 to pave way for diamond mining operations are also demanding a share of the funds.
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Several villagers who were relocated to Arda Transau in Odzi from Chiadzwa in 2010 to pave way for diamond mining operations are also demanding a share of the funds.
<p>Families from Chiadzwa village were relocated to Arda Transau, 24km from Mutare in 2009, while in 2004 at Murowa Diamond Mine, 926 people were relocated, among several other cases.</p>
Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and development.
Smuggling, corruption, despair among displaced groups, and sporadic human rights violations are all still being reported.
More than 14 years after being forcibly relocated from their ancestral villages to make way for mining in one of the world’s largest diamond-producing projects, residents of Arda Transau in Eastern Zimbabwe are still living in dire poverty. Across the 567-kilometer-wide (352-mile-wide) terrain of diamond fields and mines, known as Marange, that have sold at […]