Elbasan, Albania, March 26, 2025 (AFP) - Poisoned legacy of Albania's steel city

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2025-03-26

Once the pride of Albania's communist regime, the giant Elbasan metals complex is now one of the most polluted sites in the Balkans, burdened with hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste, much of it hazardous. Built in the 1970s with Chinese help, the vast "Steel of the Party" site once employed 10,000 workers in 500 factories during Enver Hoxha's dictatorship. Now only a tenth of that number work in the privatised plants that have survived, wit......

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