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Think Tank Report Highlights Tax Puzzle in PNG Logging Sector

ABC Radio

September 6, 2018

Two years ago the Oakland Institute published a report on illegal logging in Papua New Guinea, and warned that millions of dollars in taxes were being lost because of financial misreporting.

Tanzania’s Maasai Losing Ground to Tourism in the Name of Conservation, Investigation Finds

Mongabay

May 11, 2018

The government of Tanzania is casting aside Maasai communities to make way for lucrative high-end safari tourism and hunting, says the Oakland Institute, a policy think tank, in a report published May 10.

Maasai Herders Driven Off Land to Make Way for Luxury Safaris, Report Says

The Guardian

May 10, 2018

The Tanzanian government is putting foreign safari companies ahead of Maasai herding communities as environmental tensions grow on the fringes of the Serengeti national park, according to a new investigation.

En Tanzanie, les Masai sont rejetés hors de leurs terres au nom de la protection de la nature

Le Monde

May 10, 2018

Un rapport du Oakland Institute dénonce des intimidations envers les éleveurs qui pâtissent de conflits fonciers et doivent céder la place aux touristes et aux chasseurs.

OPINION: Rainforest or the Illegal Logger – Who is Really Under Threat in Papua New Guinea?

Pacific Islands News Association

Frederic Mousseau

“The forestry industry is on the brink of disaster” warned Bob Tate, the head of the Papua New Guinea Forest Industries Association (PNGFIA) on November 22, 2017. According to Tate, a spokesperson for the logging companies clear cutting...
Agroecology vs. the Corporate Take Over of African Agriculture

Trees: Journal of the International Tree Foundation

Since the 2008 food price crisis, we have been told over and over that Africa needs foreign investors in agriculture to ‘develop’ the continent; that Africa needs a ‘Green Revolution’, more synthetic fertilisers, and genetically modified crops in order to meet the challenges of hunger and poverty. Yet, millions of Africans...
Papua New Guinea Subsistence Farmers Fight Back Against Foreign Corporate Land Grab

Atlanta Black Star

Few westerners could even begin to wrap their brains around the traditional lifestyles of the small farmers of Papua New Guinea. Though some do make a nominal income selling small-scale cash crops like coconut and cocoa from their family gardens, these predominantly Black farmers commonly feed their families through subsistence agriculture,...
Who is Really Responsible for Collapse of Zimbabwe’s Health Services?

IPS-Inter Press Service

On October 22, 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it had removed Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador following outrage and concerns raised by his appointment just two days before.
US Withdrawal from UNESCO: Abandonment of Principles

IPS-Inter Press Service

A woman shopkeeper is standing on a plastic chair to avoid knee high swirling rainwater mixed with sewage. “I work with a women’s cooperative selling products made by Palestinian women in my shop. The sewage water has gone into the electric wires, so I have no electricity. Everything in the shop is destroyed.
The Numbers Say the Ethiopian Economy Is Doing Very Well. Reality Says Many Ethiopian Citizens Are Not

Atlanta Black Star

But for many Ethiopians, there is little to celebrate. The country remains desperately poor with the World Bank reporting Ethiopia’s per-capita income to be $619, well lower than the regional average. With food aid expected to run out next month, the United Nations estimates close to eight million Ethiopians are in danger of starvation.