Yvonne Orengo

Human rights violations reported as villagers 'gagged' during negotiations for compensation from Rio Tinto’s QMM mine in Madagascar.

Rio Tinto faces new unrest at Madagascar mine as procedural dance delays promised compensation.

Rio Tinto QMM mine failures 'root of conflict in South Madagascar.'

Dead fish found after cyclones and storms forced Rio Tinto's QMM mine in Madagascar to dump water causes alarm.

The villagers of Andrakaraka, southern Madagascar, are protesting against the Rio Tinto QMM ilmenite mine.

Communities in southern Madagascar impacted by water pollution are still waiting for basic public health information from mining giant Rio Tinto.

Rural people living on the frontline of Rio Tinto’s QMM mine in southern Madagascar are seeing their rights ignored, their lives and livelihoods devastated.

Contaminated mine waters in southern Madagascar pose health risk to locals.

Rio Tinto has finally admitted that its local operator QIT Minerals Madagascar has breached an environmental buffer zone at its Mandena site.

Mining group Rio Tinto has pulled back from sensitive environmental zone in Madagascar and admits there was no tailings dam.

Indigenous communities fear water essential to life is becoming contaminated by the nearby ilmenite mine.

Rio Tinto's QMM ilmenite mine in Madagascar has breached a legal buffer zone, exposing local people to “unacceptably high” environmental risks, a new study by the Andrew Lees Trust has found. YVONNE ORENGO and STEVEN EMERMAN report

Rio Tinto's QMM mine in Madagascar was meant to be an exemplar of 'corporate social responsibility' and environmental best practice. But the reality experienced by local communities is different, writes Yvonne Orengo, with uncompensated land seizures, food insecurity, deforestation and social deprivation. New concerns are emerging about the infringement of legal buffer zones and radiation exposure. Rio Tinto must be held responsible for its actions!

This day 20 years ago one of Britain's most committed and effective environmental campaigners died trying to save a coastal forest in southern Madagascar from mining, writes Yvonne Orengo. The world has been a poorer place without Andrew Lees - and his fears for the Petriky forest and local indigenous communities have been proved all too close to the mark.