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Villagers still waiting for share of $6.5m diamond
2018-02-08 01:33:37| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The villagers who dug up Sierra Leone's $6.5m "peace diamond" say they are still waiting for a share of the sale.
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BT Openreach effigy set alight by villagers
2017-11-05 16:32:54| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Broadband speeds are so slow, villagers say they are unable to do more than check emails and do a little browsing.
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Bangladesh river eats up land and homes, trapping poor villagers
2016-06-22 08:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Piyara Begum once had a happy life in Garuhara village by the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh, but worsening erosion of the river banks has displaced her family seven times. Now Piyara, 30, has taken shelter in Panchgachi village, 8 kilometers away in the same sub-district of Kurigram Sadar. I am always concerned about where Piyara and her three children are living, and how she manages her family expenses, as she has lost everything due to erosion, said her uncle, Abdul Majid, who...
County Cork villagers' scheme to create their only shop
2016-06-17 23:02:13| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Residents in a seaside village in County Cork have joined forces to turn an old Post Office into a village store - after going a year with no shop at all.
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Zimbabwe villagers displaced by diamond mining hope to see action from government
2016-06-13 02:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Villagers re-located to a sprawling government-owned farm complex in eastern Zimbabwe to make way for the nation's biggest diamond field are hoping that President Robert Mugabe's move to take control of the valued resource will benefit them. More than 1,000 families were moved in 2009 from a village adjacent to the Chiadzwa diamond field in Marange to Arda Transau, a 12,000 hectare farm settlement about 40 km (25 miles) to the north with promises of a better life. Arda Transau was billed as...
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