Undermining Tanzania: Australians Exploit Africa
Tanzanians are all-too-familiar with the promises made and not kept by mining companies and the national government. The mining of gold, diamonds, copper and many more minerals have left toxic wastelands and disenfranchised villages behind. An Australian company, Mantra Resources, is now aggressively pursuing uranium exploration in Tanzania. Civil society groups are working to help inform and empower threatened communities to assert their legal rights and stop u-mining before it takes hold. Mia Pepper, at the Nuclearisation of Africa Symposium in South Africa, speaks with Flaviana Charles of…
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