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But with international financing for coal-fired thermal plants drying up, it remains to be seen whether the Zimbabwe government will shift investment towards solar energy. For now, it is boom time for rooftop solar systems. 

Lithium mining in Zimbabwe has followed the resource curse route—a paradox of plenty. All the communities rich in lithium are frustrated with the plunder. Not one community is benefiting. Their portion is to pay the externalized costs of lithium mining: land grabbing, exhumation of the remains of loved ones, water grabbing, violence, dust and noise pollution, among others.