“This project is already a true ecological disaster,” says Darweshi*, a local environmentalist who wishes to remain anonymous. “Animals are totally disoriented – and even aggressive”, he explains. He wishes to take us to the Julius Nyerere ongoing construction site.
It’s easy to understand the young man’s concerns for anonymity – after all, Tanzania’s former environment minister had warned in 2018 that: “anyone opposing the project will be jailed”. Prison isn’t the ideal place for a fresh graduate to start a career.
Standing at the eastern gate of the Nyerere Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the he looks at the most unusual parade of the vehicles entering, composed of massive construction trucks followed by a few land cruisers occupied by some – distressed – foreigners”
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