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Chinese Company to Return to Zimbabwe’s Controversial Marange Diamond Fields

Anjin Investments, a diamond company partly owned by the Chinese, is set to return to the mines in the Marange diamond fields of eastern Zimbabwe.
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Chinese Company to Return to Zimbabwe’s Controversial Marange Diamond Fields
The entrance to Anjin Diamond Mine in Marange, Zimbabwe. James Mupfumi
Andrew Mambondiyani
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MUTARE, Zimbabwe—Anjin Investments, a diamond company partly owned by the Chinese, is set to return to the mines in the Marange diamond fields of eastern Zimbabwe, but its return is generating anxiety among local villagers and human-rights activists.

Before Anjin was booted out of the Marange diamond fields by former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s government in 2015, villagers and activists had accused the company of various human-rights violations and evading payment of taxes and royalties.

Andrew Mambondiyani
Andrew Mambondiyani
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Andrew Mambondiyani is a freelance journalist based in Zimbabwe with more than 10 years of journalism experience. He served as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT between 2010 and 2011, and in 2008 served as a Middleburry College Environment Journalism Fellow. His journalism has appeared in various local and international publications, including BBC, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Yale E360, IPs, Think Africa Press, SciDev.net, Centrepoint Now, Opendemocracy.net, and The Zimbabwean. He has a special interest in climate change, agriculture, human rights, sustainable development, and the environment in general.
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