Almost 18 million dollars due to a community on South Africa’s so-called Diamond Coast cannot be accounted for, according to a report by MPs. The money was part of a restitution deal in 2007 agreed between the government and the local Nama community in the west of the country. The Nama accuse big mining companies - like the state-owned Alexkor - of leaving behind significant economic and environmental damage. This is despite a law requiring mining companies to rehabilitate the areas where they’v

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