This Is Hell!

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The scenarios are the companies will come in. There'll be news splashes. ‘Yeah, we've got an investor to do this and all that.’ And then now what follows is the issue of violating human rights in communities later on. And of course, government is always like, ‘We didn't know that this is not what we agreed on’. When it comes to corporates investors… international investors… coming to these communities and the government will condemn probably, but then they'll be like, ‘that is not what you agreed on’. But then unfortunately, the violations has already happened. So for the two correlations, I haven't really had them differ on this issue per se, but of course we've had a few politicians,bring up the issue and talk about it, you know?

Nelly Madegwa is co-author of The Intercept story supported by the Pulitzer Center, "Where There Is Salt: An American Company Drilled for Oil in Kenya — and Left Behind Soaring Cancer Rates", which she co-wrote with Georgia Gee.

Nelly is an award-winning journalist from Kenya whose reporting covers climate change, sustainable development, health, and human rights across Africa. She writes frequently from a gender perspective on issues ranging from public health to sexual violenceHer work has appeared in The Elephant, Minority Africa, taz, and Africa Uncensored. Her storytelling blends investigative and data-driven reporting... read more