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World Bank suspends Tanzania tourism funding after claims of killings and evictions

The Guardian

April 23, 2024

Plan to expand Ruaha national park has been beset by allegations of abuse, leading bank to withhold final $50m of $150m budget

Facing pressure from rights groups, World Bank suspends funding for Tanzania tourism project

AP News

April 23, 2024

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.

Harmful mining continues in Nicaragua despite U.S. sanctions, new investigation shows

Mongabay

February 5, 2024

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.

Carbon Offsets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

HBO

August 21, 2022

John Oliver explains what carbon offsets are, what they claim to do, how they might be making climate change even worse, and, of course, how Oscar Isaac is getting hotter.

Colonialism Revamped in the Democratic Republic of Congo

African Arguments

140 years ago this November at the Berlin Conference, Belgium’s King Leopold was recognized as the sole owner of the Congo Free State, a territory including the entirety of today’s Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Leopold’s reign was marked by slavery, millions of deaths, and widespread atrocities committed during the first colonial...
UNESCO World Heritage Day is a celebration of violent colonial conservation against Indigenous people

The Canary

Thursday 18 of April marks the annual United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Day. This year however, an Indigenous rights non-profit is exposing UNESCO for the racist colonial institution that it is.

Significantly, the group is calling out the colonial conservation model that sits at the...
Land-grabbing luxury safari tourism is displacing Maasai communities in Tanzania

The Canary

Indigenous Maasai communities in Tanzania are being subjected to more land-grabbing and human rights abuse. This time, a major tourism company is the culprit.

On Tuesday 16 April, independent policy thinktank the Oakland Institute exposed Boston-based Thomson Safaris’ human rights violations against Indigenous villagers. Specifically,...
Over 100 Maasai Threaten to Return to Ngorongoro Following Claims of Abandonment

The Chanzo

Authorities in Tanzania are involved in fresh tussles with Indigenous Maasai people from Ngorongoro, this time with those who offered to leave the UNESCO-inscribed world heritage site and move to Msomera, Tanga, who accuse the government of abandoning them and of failing to fulfil its promises.

136 Maasai people from Msomera issued a ...
Africa is chasing billions

DandC

Africa’s drive for carbon credits continues to gather pace. Despite the prospect of generating significant revenue and green jobs, there is concern about the effectiveness, transparency and ethical implications of the current carbon markets on the continent.
Shaping our present and determining our future

Independent Online (IOL)

THIS coming month of April marks a year and a half since the ruling that culminated in the ruthless forced removal of Tanzania’s Maasai communities from their ancestral land.

The ruling, enacted by the East African Court of Justice (EACJ), was made in favour of the Tanzanian state. This was following a five-year long legal battle,...