ACT NOW: kanseche flood case
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More than 1700 rural villagers from Malawi are taking legal action against a UK company, claiming embankments built to protect its sugar plantations diverted floodwater into their village, destroying it and killing seven people, including two children.
Illovo Sugar, owned by British multinational Associated British Foods (ABF), built the embankments around their sugar plantation in Kanseche, Malawi, to protect their crops from climate impacts like flooding.
More than 500 households are still living in temporary accommodation three years on from the disaster, and have had no compensation from the company.
Now, more than 1700 Kanseche villagers are taking legal action against the company, with the UK law firm Leigh Day and with support from Water Witness.
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