ZAMBIA’S government is poised to take over a British-owned mine following demands from trade unionists.
President Edgar Lungu appears to have heeded their calls over Vedanta Resources, a London-based firm that runs his country’s largest copper mine.
In the strongest sign yet that Vedanta will lose control of the pit, Zambia’s High Court appointed a “provisional liquidator” on Tuesday.
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results



