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World Bank announces multimillion-dollar redress fund after killings and abuse claims at Tanzanian project

Guardian

Communities in Ruaha national park reject response to alleged assault and evictions of herders during tourism scheme funded by the bank.

Investigation Confirms World Bank’s ‘Compliance Failures’ in the Bank-Funded REGROW Project in Tanzania

The Chanzo

The investigation followed claims that the World Bank violated its policies in implementing the conservation project, including allowing the involuntary resettlement of indigenous peoples.

'I bought their dream': How a US company's huge land deal in Senegal went bust

AP News

Rusting pipes in a barren field and unpaid workers are what remain after a U.S. company promised to turn a huge piece of land in Senegal — about twice the size of Paris — into an agricultural project and create thousands of jobs.

Conflit à l’est de la RDC : l’UE annonce un réexamen de son accord minier avec le Rwanda

Bankable

Le Conseil des affaires étrangères de l’Union européenne a décidé, ce lundi 24 février, de réexaminer le protocole d’accord sur les minerais stratégiques signé avec le gouvernement rwandais en février 2024. L’annonce a été faite par la Haute Représentante de l’Union européenne pour les aff...

Treasury Sanctions Rwandan Minister and Senior Militant for Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

U.S. Department of the Treasury

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on James Kabarebe (Kabarebe), Rwanda’s Minister of State for Regional Integration.