admin“Many of the 1 429 households resettled to make way for Vale and Rio Tinto’s international coal mining operations . . . have faced serious disruptions in their access to food, water, and work,” the rights group said.
More than half the booming northern Tete province has been zoned for mining, limiting the amount of good farming land available for resettlement.
Mozambique is believed to have the largest untapped coal reserves in the world and exports could reach 100 million tonnes over the next decade.
But many farming families in the country’s booming north had gone from self-sufficiency to reliance on food distribution since 2009, when Brazil’s Vale started resettlements, according to Human Rights Watch. — AFP.
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