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Zimbabwe President Aims to Halt Chinese Company From Quarrying at Sacred Mountain

Zimbabwe President Aims to Halt Chinese Company From Quarrying at Sacred Mountain
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa (R) at the country's National Sports Stadium on April 18, 2019. JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP/Getty Images
Andrew Mambondiyani
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MUTARE, Zimbabwe—Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he plans to stop a Chinese company from carrying out quarrying activity north of the capital Harare, following protests by local villagers.

Mnangagwa told hundreds of people gathered at Showgrounds in Domboshava on June 5, for the country’s monthly National Clean-up Campaign, that the Chinese company—China Aihua Jianye—should stop quarrying operations in the area.

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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