As Coal Boosts Mozambique, the Rural Poor Are Left Behind

The original version of this article, by Lydia Polgreen, appeared on The New York Times. When Augusto Conselho Chachoka and his neighbors heard that the world’s biggest coal mine was to be built on their land, a tantalizing new future floated before them. Instead of scraping by as subsistence farmers, they would earn wages as miners, they thought. … Continue reading As Coal Boosts Mozambique, the Rural Poor Are Left Behind