Land & Environment

Oil palms are native to the forests of Central and West Africa and inseparable from the region’s peoples and their cultures. Communities in this part of the world have relied on oil palms for thousands of years — as a source  of  food, textiles, medicines and construction materials.

Kerkennah is a group of islands lying off the east coast of Tunisia in the Gulf of Gabès, around 20km away from the mainland city of Sfax. The two main islands are Chergui and Gharbi (Eastern and Western in Arabic).

In some economic policies like land reform, Mugabe’s management has had some positive effects, even though the reform has not been completely successful.

Now communities on the country’s East Coast are confronting mining houses. This is the area that supplied Zulu and Xhosa workers to the mines. And now the mines are coming home.

The sole eyewitness to Honduran social movement leader Berta Cáceres’ assassination on March 3, 2016 has gone from being wounded victim to, effectively, political prisoner. Now Gustavo Castro Soto may also be framed as the murderer of his long-time friend. 

“We are to have land again….Our land is us. We are our land. You took our land …. Without land we cannot be.” - Prince Maqoma imprisoned on Robben Island by British colonialists in 1859. He died there at 75 years of age.

I began writing a eulogy for Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores years ago, though she died only last week. Berta was assassinated by Honduran government-backed death squads on March 3.

The crusher, brought to the site illicitly, mid December 2015 without any formal permissions or notifications to the Laikipia County offices for Lands and Physical Planning, is set to disrupt job creation in the area, while causing significant and sustained damage to the environment.

Karura Forest is an urban forest in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. The forest was gazetted in 1932 and is managed by the Kenya Forest Service in conjunction with the Friends of Karura Forest.

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle Commission No. 6 vehemently condemns the massive land grabbing and human rights abuses being done by the government of Ethiopia under the foreign-backed Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).