Photo: Esther Ruth Mbabazi

Fighting the fossils

Big Oil is throwing money at new fossil fuel infrastructure like there’s no tomorrow. New pipelines, refineries, wells and rigs are being built across all continents. But everywhere the industry goes, it meets resistance. Here are four profiles of groups saying enough is enough. Words by Nick Dowson.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
What remains: inhabitants of Aldeia da Paz, a village in Cabo Delgado, after a 2019 attack by Islamist militants.Photo: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty

Explosive mix

Big international players are moving in to exploit Mozambique’s vast natural gas resources – but to whose benefit? asks Sophie Neiman.

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NI 528 - A caring economy - November, 2020
Cyclone Idai survivor Enia Joaquin Luis, 11, wakes up beside her sister Luisa, 6 – both enveloped by plastic sheeting in Buzi, Mozambique.Photo: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty

Mozambique: ‘I will not pay’

Mozambican campaigners call for debt cancellation.

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NI 520 - The right to the city - July, 2019
Better off? Forestry companies took fertile lands  but gave little in return in the way of opportunity.Photo: Pascal Vossen

What the land grabbers did next

In 2013, New Internationalist travelled to Mozambique to meet communities pushing back against expanding forestry plantations. Five years on, Nils Adler finds foreign companies have yet to deliver on promises to local farmers.

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NI 510 - Black Lives Matter - March, 2018
Men tackle domestic violence

Men tackle domestic violence

Meet the non-profit art group trying to end violence against women in Mozambique. By Rebecca Cooke.

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NI 509 - What's left for the young? - January, 2018
Traditional roles: girls in Mozambique are taught from a young age to be housewives. But some young women are finding the strength to forge their own paths.Photo: Rebecca Cooke

A second chance

Rebecca Cooke meets young women in Mozambique who are defying the odds and resisting child marriage.

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NI 501 - Populism rises again - April, 2017
Life-saving rats

Life-saving rats

Invaluable mine-clearers - who'd have thought?

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NI 482 - Global banking now - May, 2015
Matawa First Nations

Touch the earth

As reserves dwindle and demand balloons, resource companies are pushing into more remote regions and onto indigenous land. Jen Wilton tours seven hotspots where native people are demanding the right to decide what happens on their ancestral territory.

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NI 470 - Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth - March, 2014
‘Don’t mess’: the proud owner of a certificate that recognizes the land rights of the Chicoco community in Cuamba, Niassa.Gun Lindberg, Swedish Co-operative Centre (SCC)

Securing the global commons

The land rush started back in 2008. It has not gone unnoticed – or unchallenged.

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NI 462 - Land grabs - May, 2013
Villagers gather in Cazizi where the company Chikweti Forests has encroached on their lands.
Hazel Healy

Cazizi village holds its ground

Forestry companies want to carve up Mozambique’s northern highlands. Peasant farmers and their allies are working to hold them accountable. Hazel Healy investigates.

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NI 462 - Land grabs - May, 2013
Small-scale farmers like this rice-grower,  account for 23 per cent of Mozambique’s GDP.Hazel Healy

Invest in small farmers

With proceeds from hydrocarbons set to roll in, Mozambique has a unique opportunity to reverse the fortunes of its smallholders. Land activist Diamantino Nhampossa makes the case.

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NI 462 - Land grabs - May, 2013
‘They'll have to kill us first’. The land of villagers in Kitica, Cabo Delgado province, is under threat from a local landgrabber. They pose with machete, hoe and a coil of homegrown tobacco, the trappings of home – and self defence. Photo: Hazel Healy

The smallholders’ last stand

A visit to Mozambique dispels any notion that big business is going to ‘feed Africa’. Hazel Healy reports on a land rush in full swing.

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NI 462 - Land grabs - May, 2013
Dying for a soup Aaron Gekoski

Dying for a soup

An estimated 73 million sharks are slaughtered every year for their fins, with 110 species now facing extinction, reports Claire C.

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NI 446 - Nature's defenders - October, 2011
‘More than 100,000 mines have been destroyed since 1994.’Photo by João Madomal.

Helen Gray

Female de-miners in Mozambique

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NI 427 - Terror takeover - November, 2009

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
How we stop big oil May, 2022
A caring economy November, 2020
The right to the city July, 2019
Black Lives Matter March, 2018
What's left for the young? January, 2018
Populism rises again April, 2017
Global banking now May, 2015
Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth March, 2014
Land grabs May, 2013
Land grabs May, 2013
Land grabs May, 2013
Land grabs May, 2013
Nature's defenders October, 2011
Terror takeover November, 2009
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