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10 July 2018
Daily Maverick
In 2015 Susan Smith, now 52, was evicted from a farm in Wellington on which she had lived for almost three decades. When she and others were dumped in an informal settlement called New Rest, their lives took a turn for the worse. As President Cyril Ramaphosa talks about land restitution without compensation, evicted farm dwellers who are forced to endure substandard living conditions in informal settlements continue to suffer the consequences of the past.
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Climate change: Latest IPCC report highlights the critical need to transform agrifood systems https://africasciencenews.org/climate-change-latest-ipcc-report-highlights-the-critical-need-to-transform-agrifood-systems/
The Museveni regime, which has been in power for the past 36 years, is no stranger to cracking down on dissenting voices and detaining critics. Now climate change activists are targeted for critiquing the EACOP oil pipeline
https://africanarguments.org/2023/03/enemies-of-the-state-uganda-targets-activists-spearheading-fight-against-controversial-eacop-pipeline/
The first water UN Water Conference in 40 years seeks to avert a global water crisis. But for farmers in Eastern Africa facing catastrophic food insecurity or pastoralists who have lost over eleven million animals since 2020, the crisis is already here.
https://climate-diplomacy.org/magazine/environment/risk-informed-water-governance-critical-tool-avert-hunger-and-conflict
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