Rush for ‘clean energy’ minerals in Africa risks repeating harmful extractivist model

  • The nonprofit Global Witness investigated lithium mining projects in Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Namibia, which appear to reproduce the same model of extractivism that has impoverished African countries for centuries.
  • In March, residents of the Namibian town of Uis took to the streets to protest the activities of Chinese miner Xinfeng, alleging the company was carrying out large-scale industrial mining without the proper permits or social license.
  • In Zimbabwe, activist Farai Maguwu from the Centre for Natural Resource Governance described a similar experience of…

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