More than 1200 families affected by the coal mining project in Tete province are clamoring for fair compensation for their rights.
These are families who gave up their housing and production areas for the implantation of coal exploration mega-projects in the districts of Marara and Moatize.
For example, in the district of Marara, 289 families from Cassoca are still waiting for a decent resettlement since 2012.
The same scenario is experienced in Benga, where the situation is worrying more than five hundred families covered by the extractive industry that has agriculture as the basis of their subsistence.
The data was disclosed by Dércio Alfazema, representative of the IMD, Institute for Multiparty Democracy, in the training of magistrates in the resolution of conflicts arising from the extractive industry, in the city of Tete.
For his part, the representative of the provincial chief prosecutor, acknowledged the existence of conflicts between the coal mining companies and the communities.
However, Sérgio Mathule, director of the Provincial Services for Justice and Labour, said it was essential that the parties involved in the conflict had knowledge of the legislation in force in the country.
The two-day seminar will define new ways of action for magistrates to settle conflicts between communities and multinational companies in the extractive industry.
