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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.
The World Bank is investigating allegations of killings, rape and forced evictions made by villagers living near the site of a proposed tourism project it is funding in Tanzania.
The bank has been accused of “enabling” alleged violence by the Tanzanian government to make way for a $150m (£123m) project ministers say will protect the environment and attract more tourists to Ruaha national park.
The “resilient natural resource management for tourism and growth” (Regrow) project will almost double the size of the park, which is 130km (80 miles) from the city of Iringa.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A rights watchdog is accusing the World Bank of enabling the Tanzanian government’s violent expansion of a national park through financing from the global lender.
The World Bank has failed to hold Tanzanian authorities accountable for serious rights violations, including extrajudicial killings and sexual assaults, relating to the expansion of Ruaha National Park in the south of the East African country, according to a new report by the Oakland Institute.
Over 600,000 tourists travel to Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area each year, and many will catch a glimpse of the Great Migration: the famed trek of more than one million wildebeests and thousands of zebras, gazelles and other animals crossing over the Mara River into Kenya and back. Yet the Tanzanian government believes it can attract...
La levée des droits de douane pour soutenir l’Ukraine en guerre se ferait au détriment des agriculteurs européens. Les éleveurs français accusent Kiev de « concurrence déloyale », notamment en ce qui concerne la production de poulet. Mais la crise met surtout en lumière un modèle ukrainien écartelé entre des microfermes et de puissants agro-...
Franck Timis a réussi directement son coup : African agriculture holdings a fait son entrée à la bourse Nasdaq le 7 décembre 2023. La société prévoit d’exploiter plus de 2,9 millions d’hectares en Afrique de l’Ouest pour produire des aliments pour bétail et des crédits carbones destinées aux marchés internationaux. Au Sénégal, l’entreprise...
The Group of 77 (G77) is the largest single coalition of developing countries comprising over two-thirds of the 193-member United Nations.
Besides protecting and promoting the economic interests of 134 nations, the G77 is also home to several sub categories, including the world’s least developed countries (LDCs), landlocked developing...
Tanzania’s government through its Minister of State in the Office of the Vice President (Union and Environment), Selemani Jafo said that the country is on track to raise USD 1 Billion through carbon trading.