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By Dimitri Selibas MAKHASANENI, South Africa — In a village in the rolling hills of grassland, woodlands and scattered homesteads in South Africa’s picturesque KwaZulu-Natal province, a broil betwe...
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An estimated 82 percent of the record 149 million Africans facing acute food insecurity are in conflict-affected countries.
Featured News
The city of Gqeberha in South Africa is an example of how water is increasingly becoming a commodified resource, benefiting the powerful and depriving everyone else.
Featured News
26 November 2023
The Conversation
Getting climate funds to frontline communities may require rich countries and the UN easing control over how the money is spent.
Africa Land News read more
29 November 2023
African Arguments
Local communities are not beneficiaries in action on the climate and biodiversity crises. They are the experts we must learn from and support
Africa Land News read more
22 November 2023
AFSA
National Land Policy Study Reports on Senegal, Mali, Togo, Ghana & Cameroon. AFSA is delighted to launch a series of five national reports, within AFSA's Our Land is Our Life land rights initiative in these countries. These reports aim to: Examine Land Policies and Governance: They seek to understand the national land policies and governance
Africa Land News read more
21 November 2023
GroundUp
Housing Development Agency agrees to drop eviction proceedings
Food security read more
30 November 2023
LUSA
Mozambican environmental associations are criticising "empty speeches" and fruitless summits on climate change, calling for a "complete boycott" of the UN summit (COP28) taking place from Thursday in Dubai, and suggesting an environmental tribunal. "Years and years of empty speeches at the variou
Africa Land News read more
14 November 2023
Bloomberg
While faucets in coastal Dakar barely trickle, an investment company uses Senegal’s only lake to irrigate crops it plans to send to Saudi Arabia.
Africa Land News read more
17 November 2023
GroundUp
“Many of us are here because we were evicted from farms. We were dumped here”
Farm workers read more
20 November 2023
GroundUp
“I am broken” says Jan Marthinus, in tears after his family was left homeless
Farm workers read more
16 November 2023
Daily Maverick
It is estimated that Michiru Forest has now lost over 1,904ha, with most of these being home to indigenous tree species. It is also feared that other forms of biodiversity are rapidly disappearing.
Africa Land News read more
15 November 2023
Daily Maverick
While the climate impacts of burning coal are well documented, a lesser-told story is the misery endured by communities forced to accommodate new coal mines as neighbours. Banks which finance these mines are complicit.
Land rights and mining read more
21 October 2023
African Arguments
Carbon credit projects across 20% of Zimbabwe may make profits for a UAE firm, but will it also benefit communities and the climate?
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09 November 2023
Daily Maverick
Bank statements and financial reports obtained by amaBhungane suggest that the four former committee members tapped into the CPA’s resources in problematic ways that went beyond their purview, a view bolstered by allegations of their poor performance.
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