On a sweltering February afternoon, the muffled cries of a baby resounded from a thatched pole and dagga hut in the Marange area of eastern Zimbabwe. Villagers in this part of the country live in abject poverty, scraping together a living from subsistence farming, fishing, and selling mats made from baobab fiber. Yet hardly a … Continue reading Abuse, displacement, pollution: the legacy of Zimbabwe’s Marange diamonds