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Author: Majid Shabbeer

Shangaan vs Agricultural Expansion in the Chilonga Reserve

In pursuit of industrial agriculture, the Chilonga land reserve and its Shangaan residents face a removal of their legal protections.

Published January 14, 2026
Categorized as Shangaan, ZimbabweTagged Agriculture, Chilonga, eviction, Shangaan, Zimbabwe

Diamond Extraction vs San

Unfettered diamond extraction has led to environmental destruction and cultural erasure across the San ancestral homelands

Published January 13, 2026
Categorized as Botswana, SanTagged Botswana, Diamond, Mine, San

Wagner Abuses Against the Mbororo

Wagner involvement in the nation’s civil war has resulted in the violent targeting of indigenous Muslim populations.

Published March 15, 2025
Categorized as Central African Republic, Fulani, MbororoTagged central african republic, fulani, Mbororo, peuhl, wagner

Impacts of Militarization on Bedouin Communities

Since the 2014 militarization of the Sinai, nomadic communities have found their way of life threatened under a system of discrimination.

Published March 14, 2025
Categorized as Bedouin, EgyptTagged 2014, Bedouin, Egypt, Sinai

Impacts of Militarization on Bedouin Communities

Since the 2014 militarization of the Sinai, nomadic communities have found their way of life threatened under a system of discrimination.

Published March 14, 2025
Categorized as Bedouin, EgyptTagged 2014, Bedouin, Egypt, Militarization, Sinai

Haratines vs Systemic Slavery and Discrimination

Fighting against longstanding structures of discrimination and slavery, Mauritania’s Haratines strive for civil liberties and equal rights.

Published November 19, 2024
Categorized as Agribusiness, Haratines, Mauritania

State-based Discrimination Against Tebu and Amazigh Libyans

Even in a post-Ghaddafi world, Libya’s non-Arab ethnic minorities face language, citizenship, and cultural discrimination supported by law.

Published September 6, 2024
Categorized as Amazigh, Language Violation, Libya, Tebu

Wagner Abuses Against Fulani and Kel Tamasheq (Tuareg) Communities

With the reignition of conflict in the wake of Wagner-Junta aggression, Mali’s Kel Tamasheq (Tuareg) and Fulani communities are under attack.

Published September 4, 2024
Categorized as Fulani, Kel Tamasheq, Mali, Refugees, Tuareg

Eritrean Afar in Dankalia

Facing government-sanctioned ethnic violence, mass sexual abuse, and the seizure of property, the Eritrean Afar are an indigenous people trapped by a repressive government. Combined with a blockade of their homeland, the Afar condition only worsens.

Published October 28, 2023
Categorized as Afar, Eritrea, Extractive IndustriesTagged Afar, Dankalia, EANC, Eritrea, Mining

Sahrawi vs Land Grabbing in the Western Sahara

For decades, the Sahrawi people of the Western Sahara have fought occupation, and today face a new reality of eviction and cultural erasure.

Published October 6, 2023
Categorized as Refugees, Sahrawi, Western SaharaTagged Refugees, Sahrawi, Western Sahara

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The University of Michigan has its origins in land coercively purchased by the United States Federal Government from the Anishinaabeg (including Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi) and Wyandot nations. While this project documents ongoing cases of land expropriation and dispossession outside of the United States, we are also based in a university that stands, like almost all property in the United States, on lands obtained from indigenous peoples, generally through violence, intimidation, and dishonesty. Knowing and acknowledging where we live and work does not change this, but a thorough understanding of the ongoing consequences of these histories must shape our research, teaching, and outreach to create a future that supports human flourishing and justice for all individuals.

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