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UN Puts Spotlight on Attacks Against Indigenous Land Defenders

Scheerpost 24 Apr 2024
When around 70,000 Indigenous Maasai were expelled from their lands in northern Tanzania in 2022, it didn’t happen in a vacuum ... In 2021, of the 200 land and environmental defenders killed worldwide, more than 40 percent were Indigenous.
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Vijay Prashad: Landless Brazilians & Gaza

Consortium News 22 Apr 2024
This great inequality in land ownership is at the heart of the work of the MST, as well as organisations around the world such as Mviwata in Tanzania (about whom Tricontinetal will be publishing a ...
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Report: Attacks on Indigenous Land Defenders on the Rise

Truth Dig 19 Apr 2024
When around 70,000 Indigenous Maasai were expelled from their lands in northern Tanzania in 2022, it didn’t happen in a vacuum ... In 2021, of the 200 land and environmental defenders killed worldwide, more than 40 per cent were Indigenous.
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Insurance firms should shun the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

Al Jazeera 16 Apr 2024
When their land was allocated for the pipeline construction, they were not compensated immediately for it ... If the pipeline is completed, more than 100,000 people in Uganda and Tanzania will permanently lose land to make way for it.
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Out on dry land: Water shortage threatens species in Ruaha National Park in Tanzania

Phys Dot Org 15 Apr 2024
Ruaha National Park in Tanzania was established in 1964 and expanded in 2008 to include the Usangu Game Reserve ... The Great Ruaha River is one of Tanzania's largest rivers and is ... Out on dry land.
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Journalist says a 'land grab' in Tanzania is forcing the Maasai off their land

National Public Radio 11 Apr 2024
Atlantic journalist Stephanie McCrummen says foreign interests are acquiring territory in Northern Tanzania, effectively displacing indigenous cattle-herders from their traditional grazing lands ....
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Elephant deaths trigger Kenyan call for Tanzania to curb hunts

Gulf News 10 Apr 2024
licensed hunters across the border in Tanzania ... The conservationists say they now want Tanzania to reinstate the trophy hunting moratorium, reinforcing it with more definite terms on land within 40 km of the Kenyan frontier.
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The Great Serengeti Land Grab

The Atlantic 08 Apr 2024
No land, ... What trophy hunting does to the elephants it leaves behind ] “This is 80 percent of our land,” a Maasai elder told me one evening during a meeting with other leaders in northern Tanzania.
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A Dubai company’s staggering land deals in Africa raise fears about risks to Indigenous livelihoods

West Hawaii Today 08 Apr 2024
However, through opaque agreements, the company has potentially secured staggering amounts of land across other countries, including Kenya, Liberia, Tanzania and Zambia, since forming in late 2022.
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A Dubai company's staggering land deals in Africa raise fears about risks to Indigenous livelihoods

Newsday 07 Apr 2024
However, through opaque agreements, the company has potentially secured staggering amounts of land across other countries, including Kenya, Liberia, Tanzania and Zambia, since forming in late 2022.
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In The Know: News, updates from Greenville area businesses and nonprofits

Greenville News 01 Apr 2024
... in Los Angeles, where he worked on shows like “Friends” and “ER.” He hiked Tanzania with Jane Goodall and was on Flight 1549, which made a successful emergency landing in the Hudson River in 2009.
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703-Carat L'Heure Bleu Tanzanite Carving Sets New GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS(TM) Title as World's Largest Cut Tanzanite

ACCESSWIRE 28 Mar 2024
Kilimanjaro in Tanzania ... The mines are on the ancestral land of the Maasai and it is the only place in the world where this blue-violet gemstone is found ... It sits on a Sterling Silver base inspired by the winds of Tanzania's Great Rift Valley.
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Luxor forecasts massive migration of Bitcoin rigs ahead of halving

Cryptopolitan 25 Mar 2024
The Bitcoin halving event is sparking a major shift in the mining industry, and the stakes couldn’t be higher ... Talk about a markdown ... Countries like Ethiopia, Tanzania, Paraguay, and Uruguay are becoming the promised lands for these old timers.
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Ask UNL's Food Doc: What's brewing behind instant coffee's comeback?

Lincoln Journal Star 06 Mar 2024
Tanzania ... However, Tanzania is at risk of losing its ... As global temperatures rise, Tanzania will have to move its crop to higher altitudes, but much of that land is restricted to protect biodiversity.
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