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A powerful new book restores the writer and feminist politician to her rightful place in history.
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Concerns are rife that while Africa is growing more crops, these are not for food and that on the current trajectory, present food import costs into Africa, now estimated at 55 billion US dollars a...
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THE government has finally settled the 15-year long land conflict pitting farmers and livestock keepers in Mbarali District, Mbeya Region within Usangu Basin on one hand and the Ruaha National Park...
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Destructive mining in Congo’s protected areas is rampant because it generates money for citizens, officials and armed groups.
27 January 2023
GroundUp
100 houses allocated to victims of the Group Areas Act
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11 January 2023
Fair Planet
Botswana's Bushmen community has been the victim of forceful evictions and discriminatory harassment.
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24 January 2022
DW
Displaced survivors and witnesses of atrocities at the hands of the armed group M23, which is fighting the army in eastern Congo, have spoken with DW about their trauma as they seek to rebuild their lives.
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23 November 2022
The Conversation
Besides good equipment, M23 is fighting a well-organised conventional war in which it has intimidated the national army.
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25 January 2023
Afrik21
Increasingly criticised by civil society organisations and the media around the world, forest carbon offsetting can play an important role in the current climate crisis. This is the message of the recent release by the Centre for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), which warns against abandoning forest carbon offsetting schemes such as REDD+.
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24 January 2023
GroundUp
The latest relocation plan has been rejected by some of the respondents
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24 January 2023
GroundUp
Doring Bay Abalone, 37% owned by the community, produces about 60 tonnes of abalone per year, mostly to legally export to China.
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24 January 2023
Reuters
Uganda on Tuesday commissioned the first of its four planned oil rigs and the start of drilling the first production well, a key milestone as the country races to meet its target of first oil output in 2025 after a long delay.
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15 December 2023
Daily Maverick
ReconAfrica, a start-up oil exploration company with interests in Namibia and Botswana, is fighting for survival as its auditors resign, a cash crunch looms and a New York court battle with disgruntled investors comes to a head.
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20 January 2023
SALC
20 January 2023, Gaborone – On Tuesday, 24 January 2023, the Botswana Court of Appeal will hear an appeal brought by the Attorney General and the Registrar of Deeds (Appellants)...
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23 January 2023
Engineering News
Business organisation the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz) has urged for less loadshedding in areas under irrigation and food-processing facilities. In crucial field crops, roughly 20% of maize, 15% of soybean, 34% of sugarcane and nearly half of the wheat production are produced under irrigation and these face severe challenges owing to persistently hot and dry conditions, coupled with constrained ability to irrigate. Fruits and vegetables also heavily rely on irrigation, and thus face similar challenges.
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22 January 2023
Daily Maverick
There is a scramble for oil, gas and coal in Botswana, much of it centred on the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). After a flurry of reports about alleged fracking plans in the park several years ago, this drive has been underreported recently, with attention diverted to such activities elsewhere in the country.
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Forcibly removed 60 years ago: Simon’s Town land claimants return https://www.groundup.org.za/article/forcibly-removed-60-years-ago-simons-town-land-claimants-return/
Botswana's Bushmen community has been the victim of forceful evictions and discriminatory harassment. https://www.fairplanet.org/story/the-forced-eviction-of-botswanas-indigenous-people/
Renewable energy worldwide is now cheaper per MWh than fossil fuels, especially in Africa given their favorable geographic situation. Much like the tobacco industry, when polluting and dangerous fossil fuels are pushed out of Europe & the US, they push their products on Africa.
Activist @BarigyeBob1 is yet to be released two days after being arrested for organising a debate on the environmental, human rights and economic impact of the controversial #EACOP. We demand his immediate release! See press statement ~> https://www.stopeacop.net/our-news/press-release-stopeacop-campaign-demand-for-the-release-of-activist-barigye-bob
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