The Northern Rangelands Trust’s carbon sequestration project in Kenya raises concerns about land displacement and human rights violations.
Category: Ethnic Group
Disappearance of Lake Chad
Basarwa vs. Moremi Game Reserve
Basarwa people in Botswana face loss of land and livelihood due to the development of the large game reserve in the Okavango Delta.
Palm Oil Production in Cameroon
East African Crude Oil Pipeline
The EACOP, undertaken by Total Energies, has displaced thousands of indigenous peoples in Uganda and Tanzania from their homes
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.
Language Rights of Amazigh People vs. Government of Morocco
Analyzing the Conditions of Tamazight Language Revitalization in Morocco.
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.
Sahrawi vs Resource Extraction in the Western Sahara
As the Moroccan government illegally extracts mineral and agricultural wealth from occupied Sahrawi lands, indigenous communities suffer.
Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline vs. Bakola/Bagyeli
The large extraction project poses negative social, environmental, and health impacts on indigenous peoples in Cameroon.