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‘They want to remove us and take the rock’, say Zimbabweans living near Chinese-owned mines
As companies extract wealth, villagers say they see little benefit and are instead exploited in quarries, live in homes damaged by blasts and are unable to farm polluted land
Zimbabwe: 12 000 Chilonga villagers face eviction after losing High Court battle
High Court judge Justice Martin Mafusire has dismissed an application by Chilonga villagers challenging government’s plans to evict more than 12 000 families from their ancestral land in Chiredzi to pave way for a lucerne grass project.
In Madagascar, beekeepers persist in the face of fires and forest loss
by Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy on 5 January 2022 | Translated by Pénélope Vasina
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Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ could have far-reaching climate effects
Africa’s “Great Green Wall” initiative is a proposed 8,000-kilometer line of trees meant to hold back the Sahara from expanding southward. New climate simulations looking to both the region’s past and future suggest this greening could have a profound effect on the climate of northern Africa, and even beyond.
China Land Sales Remain Sluggish Even as Bidding Rules Eased
China’s cash-strapped developers have become reluctant to acquire land even as some local governments relax bidding rules, adding to signs of their liquidity crunch and threatening to deepen the nation’s economic slowdown.
Land plots auctioned in the fourth quarter through Dec. 20 only fetched an average 3% premium over their starting prices, according to data compiled by China Real Estate Information Corp. That’s down from a 17% premium in the second quarter and 8% in the third, said the research agency, which tracks auctions across 300 Chinese cities.
Train express de Dakar: la grogne des expropriés
Ils sont mécaniciens, maraîchers ou autres occupants expropriés le long du tracé du Train express régional de Dakar (TER) devant être inauguré lundi et réclament 76 millions d'euros à l'Etat sénégalais.
"Le TER nous a appauvris. C'est un projet qui a produit des morts-vivants", affirme à l'AFP Amina Bayo, une responsable d'un "Collectif des impactés du TER".
Evicted families of Assam’s Dhalpur not illegal immigrants or land grabbers, says report
Banner photo: Since most of the evicted families were Bengali-speaking Muslims, it was alleged that they are illegal immigrants who had forcibly occupied government land as well as land of indigenous people and also settled on grazing land. (PTI PHOTO.)
Scaling up Community-based Land Registration and Land Use Planning on Customary Land in Uganda” project launched
Much of the land in Uganda is subject to customary tenure. Because it is not officially registered, land users fear that they may be forced off their land. Registering land has many benefits: it gives the users more security and means they can invest in the land and pass it on to their children.
Accès des femmes au foncier : L’engagement des ministères en charge de la femme et de l’agriculture
Pour plus d’un, l’appui aux initiatives socio-économiques des femmes est chose indispensable dans la relance des économies de nos États, surtout en cette période post pandémie. Pour cette frange qui constitue plus de la moitié (52%) de la population sénégalaise, 6 d’entre-elles sur 10 vivent et travaillent dans les zones rurales où elles constituent 68% de la force de travail, ont révélé des statistiques du ministère de la Femme, de la Famille et de l’Enfant.
Zimbabwe’s climate migration is a sign of what’s to come
Climate change will force tens of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa to migrate by 2050. In Zimbabwe, it's already started.