According to the global land monitoring agency Land Matrix, India is the biggest investor in land in Ethiopia, accounting for 70 per cent of the land acquired by foreigners since 2008. Firms from India have acquired over 600,000 hectares of land in the country, which is more than 10 times the land acquired by the
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By Sasha Chavkin, Huffington Post The soldiers pointed their guns at Odoge Otiri and led the 22-year-old student into the forest outside his village in western Ethiopia. Then, he says, they began pounding him with their nightsticks, leaving him bloody and unmoving. “I was unconscious,” he recalls. “The reason they left me is they thought
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The human cost of Ethiopia’s “villagisation” programme is laid bare by damning first person testimony published on Tuesday. The east African country has long faced criticism for forcibly relocating tens of thousands of people from their ancestral homes to make way for large scale commercial agriculture, often benefiting foreign investors. Those moved to purpose-built communes
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By William Davison, Bloomberg Aid in the past 5 years helped Ethiopia reduce child mortality by nearly 70% and introduce social welfare for 8 million of its poorest people. THE UK ended support for a programme funding public services in Ethiopia partly because of the Horn of Africa nation’s crackdown on journalists and opposition politicians
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(Washington, DC) – The World Bank should fully address serious human rights issues raised by the bank’s internal investigation into a project in Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the bank’s vice president for Africa. The bank’s response to the investigation findings attempts to distance the bank from the many problems confirmed
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By Megan Perry, Sustainable Food Trust s://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1y5fssKiTw A land grab twice the size of France is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the wholesale seizure of indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations for sugar, palm oil, cotton and biofuels run by foreign corporations, destroying ancient cultures and turning Lake
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ICIJ | By Sasha Chavkin This article was reported by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a Washington DC-based global network of 185 reporters in 65 countries who collaborate on transnational investigations. Internal watchdog finds link between World Bank financing and Ethiopian government’s mass resettlement of indigenous group The World Bank repeatedly violated its own
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The construction of a huge dam in Ethiopia and the introduction of large-scale agricultural businesses has been controversial – finding out what local people think can be hard, but with the help of a bottle of rum nothing is impossible. After waiting several weeks for letters of permission from various Ethiopian ministries, I begin my
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The African nation is getting richer—but some of its poorest citizens are paying the price. Ethnic Suri in Ethiopia. The group has been pushed off grazing land, without compensation, in favor of a palm oil plantation, profits from which are expatriated, according to land rights advocates. (Photo courtesy of the Oakland Institute) By Vince Beiser
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The African nation is getting richer—but some of its poorest citizens are paying the price. Ethnic Suri in Ethiopia. The group has been pushed off grazing land, without compensation, in favor of a palm oil plantation, profits from which are expatriated, according to land rights advocates. (Photo courtesy of the Oakland Institute) By Vince Beiser
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