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How a ‘Gold Mafia’ is looting Southern Africa, washing dirty cash
23 Março 2023
Al Jazeera infiltrates large gold-smuggling rings and reveals a giant money laundering scheme in which billions of dollars’ worth of gold is smuggled every month from Zimbabwe to Dubai, allowing criminals to whitewash dirty money through a web of shell companies, fake invoices and paid-off officials.
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Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act that ‘recreates the Bantustans’ heads to ConCourt
20 Fevereiro 2023
In South Africa rural citizens argue that by signing the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act, the President made the abusive actions of traditional leaders legal. However they have no issue with the fact that, at last, the law recognises Khoi and San leaders and communities.
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Liberia: The farmer defending his land against a palm plantation
15 Fevereiro 2023
In the last 13 years, a 47-year-old Liberian farmer has been embroiled in a battle with the company over his farmland. It has placed him behind bars three times. However, he still owns the land.
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Promoting hunger and impoverishment in Somalia
10 Janeiro 2023
Mark Duffield and Nicholas Stockton write how the ecologically sustainable, communally managed subsistence pastoralism in Somalia has been displaced by militarised extractive ranching. Challenging mainstream accounts of the “drought” Duffield and Stockton argue the current crisis is the result of decades of bad development and relief interventions that have promoted impoverishment and hunger.
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Cyclone in Madagascar kills dozens, displaces tens of thousands
30 Janeiro 2023
Cyclone Cheneso smashed into northeastern Madagascar 10 days ago, bringing strong winds and triggering downpours that have caused extensive flooding.
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Cape Town: Forcibly removed 60 years ago Simon’s Town land claimants return
27 Janeiro 2023
Sixty years after they were forcibly removed to Gugulethu by the apartheid regime in terms of the Group Areas Act some families are returning to Simon’s Town, while others haave accepted compensation.
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The forced eviction of Botswana's indigenous people
11 Janeiro 2023
In December, Botswana’s Court of Appeal denied a Bushmen family the right to bury their elder, Pitseng Gaoberekwe, on his ancestral land in the Kalahari Desert, from which the community has been evicted to make way for the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). Gaoberekwe died in December 2021 but remains unburied after the Botswana government denied the family access to the diamond-rich land.