Rio Tinto’s Madagascar Mine Promised Prosperity. It Tainted a Community.
The Anglo-Australian mining company is facing legal claims that it contaminated waterways and lakes with harmful levels of uranium and lead.
Neha Wadekar
Neha Wadekar is an independent multimedia journalist reporting across the globe.
She reports at the intersections of climate, gender, conflict, health, human rights, emerging democracies, and politics.
Neha’s written and video work has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, PBS NewsHour, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Mother Jones, CNN, and others.
She has received fellowships from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, the United Nations Foundation, the Fuller Project, the Overseas Press Club, the International Women’s Media Foundation, and the GroundTruth Project.
She reports at the intersections of climate, gender, conflict, health, human rights, emerging democracies, and politics.
Neha’s written and video work has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, PBS NewsHour, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Mother Jones, CNN, and others.
She has received fellowships from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, the United Nations Foundation, the Fuller Project, the Overseas Press Club, the International Women’s Media Foundation, and the GroundTruth Project.
Contacts:
- @NehaWadekar on X
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Posts:
Whistleblower: The World Bank Helped Cover Up Child Sex Abuse at a Chain of For-Profit Schools It Funded
Bridge International Academies was in the midst of a key financing round when allegations of child sex abuse emerged. They fought back hard.
Two Harvard Grads Saw Big Profits in African Education. Children Paid the Price.
An aggressive startup set out to disrupt African education. Now it’s plagued by a sexual abuse investigation.