US EditionWomen protesters attack Chinese-run mine in Guinea Bissau
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Hundreds of protesters broke into a Chinese zircon mine, which has been operating since 2022, and then angry women set fire to all the buildings there. The mine operates in northwestern Guinea-Bissau, near the resort of Varela. One protester said they did not want them digging in the sand without their consent. Due to mining, their rice fields were destroyed and fish from the backwater near the site died out.The interior minister condemned the v…
According to locals, the Chinese company has destroyed their rice fields and caused fish extinction in nearby waters.
The women of Guinea-Bissau say 'enough' to the exploitation of zirconium mines and the environmental damage that this causes to their country. “All the installations were burned,” Interior Minister Botche Candé told the press, who went to Nhiquin, the site of the accident and not far from the border with Senegal, without providing further details. By 'structures' the member of the executive means those managed by Chinese companies in the north-w…
Women protesters in G.Bissau torch Chinese-run mine
Bissau (AFP) April 20, 2025 Women protesters in Guinea-Bissau on Sunday attacked a Chinese-run site in the northwest of the country mining zircon, setting fire to equipment, the interior minister and witnesses told AFP. One protester told AFP they had acted after the authorities failed to act on their complaints that the activity was damaging their farms and ruining the local environment. Several women and a villa
Tempers flared, women set fire to a zircon mine in Guinea-Bissau - According to the Minister of the Interior, all the buildings in the mine burned down.
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