Kenya
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2 August 2017
For years, thousands of acres of land in Kerio Valley have been washed away by rain water from the highlands, this trend is set to be reversed thanks to the adoption of vetipher grass.
For years, thousands of acres of land in Kerio Valley have been washed away by rain water from the highlands,…
31 July 2017
Climate change, soil degradation and rising wealth are shrinking the amount of usable land in Africa. But the number of people who need it is rising fast.
By Jeffrey Gettleman
LAIKIPIA, Kenya — The two elders, wearing weather-beaten cowboy hats with the strings cinched under their chins, stood at…
28 June 2017
Deadline:
31/12/2017
Voice is a new innovative grant facility that supports the most marginalised and discriminated people in ten low- and lower-middle income countries in Africa and Asia. It aims to amplify and connect thus far unheard voices in efforts to leave no one behind.
Voice stands out…
20 June 2017
Many cash-strapped Maasai have become landless after subdividing and selling swathes of land to the south of Nairobi
NAIROBI, June 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kenya's opposition leader has raised tensions weeks ahead of elections by criticising the Maasai community's sale of ancestral land…
19 June 2017
Date: 15 juin 2017
Source: Agence Ecofin
Par: Servan Ahougnon
Au Kenya, Suleiman Shahbal (photo), le candidat du Jubilee au gouvernorat de Mombasa et son colistier, Anania Mwaboza, ont annoncé qu'ils débloqueraient, s’ils sont élus, 9,6 millions de dollars chaque année, durant tout leur…
1 June 2017
Date: 1 juin 2017
Source: RFI
Selon un rapport de l’International Crisis Group publié lundi 29 mai, la région de la vallée du Rift au Kenya risque d’être le théâtre de tensions entre différents groupes ethniques lors des élections générales du 8 août prochain. En cause, les conflits fonciers, l…
29 May 2017
With detailed field studies from Kenya, Cameroon, Uganda and Namibia, a new report sheds light on the consequences of extractive industries on land rights and indigenous peoples in Africa. “Worrying that so little is done to protect the environment and the indigenous peoples,” says the report.
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26 May 2017
Colonialism brought large-scale farming to Africa, promising modernisation and jobs – but often dispossessing people and exploiting workers. Now, after several decades of independence, and with investor interest growing, African governments are once again promoting large plantations and estates.…
2 May 2017
Date: 02 mai 2017
Source: African Manager
Le Comité pour l’élimination de la discrimination raciale a entendu, le lundi 1er mai 2017, des intervenants de la société civile au sujet de la mise en œuvre de la Convention internationale sur l’élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination raciale…
23 April 2017
Tina Anyango (not her real name) aged 28 is a widow living in Kuoyo Kaila, East seme Ward in Kisumu County. She is living with HIV which robbed her off the man she had lived with and loved for the past eight years. Her husband’s death left her solely responsible for their two children. To meet…
19 April 2017
ELENERAI, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Norah Chepkulul, a single mother of two young sons, stands outside her home, a grass thatched hut surrounded by cactus-like euphoria trees on the dusty Maasai Mara road in Kenya's Rift Valley.
She has just finished milking her four cows and has…
12 April 2017
Indigenous Peoples and community advocates in Brazil, Guatemala, Kenya, Taiwan, and 21 other countries to take action for community land rights, April 22-29 (Earth Day)
WASHINGTON - Research shows that Indigenous Peoples and local communities are the best guardians of their customary lands and…