World Bank suspends Tanzania tourism funding after claims of killings and evictions
Plan to expand Ruaha national park has been beset by allegations of abuse, leading bank to withhold final $50m of $150m budget
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Plan to expand Ruaha national park has been beset by allegations of abuse, leading bank to withhold final $50m of $150m budget
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.
Study shows musician Bono is an investor in TPG Rise Fund which owns 30% of the Midwest Carbon Express, also known as the Summit Carbon Pipeline.
40 per cent of Laikipia county’s land is occupied by large ranches and conservancies
After the Ukrainian authorities opened the land market in the spring of 2020 and at the same time prevented farmers from building up their muscles by curtailing their financial support programs, it became obvious that the state, developing agriculture, would rely on agricultural holdings according to the Latin American version.
The executive director of the American Oakland Institute, Anuradha Mittal, addressed a letter to the heads of key global financial institutions at the IMF, the World Bank, and the EBRD, in which he declares the risk of Ukraine losing its economic independence due to the...
Forget any rebuilding programme such as the Marshall Plan, by then mainly US commercial interests will have carved up agricultural land
Against the wishes of hundreds of millions of farmers, the bank is backing a model that can push economic dependence, soil depletion and pollution.