Tanzania wants to evict Maasai for wildlife – but they’re fighting back
Community members are on a campaign to get international donors to defund their government and stop rights violations.
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Community members are on a campaign to get international donors to defund their government and stop rights violations.
The World Bank has suspended funding for a tourism project in Tanzania that caused the suffering of tens of thousands of villagers, according to a U.S.-based rights group that has long urged the global lender to take such action.
U.S. sanctions imposed in 2022 against Nicaragua’s mining industry were supposed to help combat a bloody wave of human rights abuses against local communities. But several years later, some aspects of the sanctions still aren’t being enforced, allowing mining companies to continue operations and even expand into new parts of the country.
Against the wishes of hundreds of millions of farmers, the bank is backing a model that can push economic dependence, soil depletion and pollution.
Forget any rebuilding programme such as the Marshall Plan, by then mainly US commercial interests will have carved up agricultural land
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Flambée des prix et perturbations sur les chaînes de production : le conflit a eu des répercussions alimentaires immédiates, suscitant un élan international, mais peu de réponses à long terme.
Reportage from where a private company and state-led border building converge to violently evict people from their ancestral land.
In Tanzania, thousands of Maasai are being removed from their homelands for tourism and conservation.