By Emmanuel LoWilla*, President of the East African Caucus of the Pan-African Parliament Rio Tinto left Bougainville without repair for thirty-seven years. The same scenario is taking place today in Madagascar — and is about to start in Guinea and Mozambique. In 1989, a mine on the island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, ceased all activity. Rio Tinto had been extracting copper and gold there for seventeen years, and nearly one billion tons of…
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By Emmanuel LoWilla*, President of the East African Caucus of the Pan-African Parliament Rio Tinto left Bougainville without repair for thirty-seven years. The same scenario is taking place today in Madagascar — and is about to start in Guinea and Mozambique. In 1989, a mine on the island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, ceased all activity. Rio Tinto had been extracting copper and gold there for seventeen years, and nearly one billion tons of…