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Surrounded by diamonds, villagers go hungry in drought-hit Zimbabwe

2016-02-08 06:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Shylet Mutsago, a 63-year-old who lives near the diamond fields of Marange, cannot hide her anger over how mining in this gem-rich part of eastern Zimbabwe has failed to improve the lives of local people. From a distance she watches as companies turn the ground over in search of the alluvial diamonds, releasing clouds of red dust into the sky. "Our hopes of benefiting from the diamonds are gone," she said. "And with this severe drought we are now placing our lives in the hands of God. We are living...

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