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.
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In a new report, Nicaragua’s Gold Rush, the Oakland Institute exposes how, despite US sanctions on Nicaragua’s gold mining sector, the industry has boomed, fueled by foreign business interests. The US is the primary destination, accounting for a staggering 79 percent of total...
The sanctions that the US Department of the Treasury approved in 2022 against Eniminas, the state-owned company that regulates the issuance of mining concessions, are not being enforced, according to an Oakland Institute report. This has allowed the expansion of the mining business to continue in Nicaragua’s indigenous territory
The Tanzanian government’s plan to massively expand tourism across the country is no secret. In blind pursuit of attracting five million visitors annually and generating US$6 billion from the tourism sector by 2025, it has waged a brutal campaign against local and Indigenous communities living adjacent to Protected Areas (PAs).
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John McEnroe left his mark on the Serengeti.
In a tennis match played amid roaming wildlife in Tanzania, McEnroe, the seven-time Grand Slam winner, unleashed one of his signature outbursts Tuesday during an exhibition against his brother brother Patrick. It was been advertised as the first tennis match on the Serengeti.
The event...
The World Bank has given Tanzanian authorities until late December to settle complaints of civil rights violations tied to a $150 million natural resources project that the bank is funding before it launches a formal investigation into the matter.
The Bank’s board on November 15 gave the green light for the probe into the Resilient...