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A woman from Mindonga settlement boils the effluents that emanate from the Yaligimba palm oil mill to make a paste she uses like soap. “We use it to wash our clothes, the cooking utensils, [to] wash our bodies,” another one of the women who makes ‘soap’ said. Yaligimba, February 2, 2019.

© 2019 Timo Müller/Human Rights Watch.