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The Philippine mining clampdown that wasn´t
On February 2, 2017, Philippine Environment Secretary Gina Lopez, who has the full backing of the country’s controversial president Duterte, announced the closure of 23 large-scale mining operations. Two weeks later, on February 14, she announced the cancellation of 75 large-scale mining contracts, as a
Radbout Universiteit
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MOYA urges youth to focus on agriculture
Young people should focus on agriculture, said the Minister of Youth Affair (MOYA), Mohamed Orman Bangura. According to the International Labour Organization data in 2019, the estimated youth unemployment rate in Sierra Leone was at 84.9% and 85.9% in 2018. The Ministry of Youth and the World Food Program (WFP) recently signed an MOU to encourage youth a agriculture project. One of the opportunities the Minister highlighted was through agriculture the economy would stabilize in chiefdoms and districts. He also added agriculture will create jobs for the youth.
SOCAPALM, Groupe BOLLORE et Groupe SOCFIN, au Cameroun : Communiqué de suivi du PCN français
Les PCN français, belge et luxembourgeois ont été saisis le 3 décembre 2010 par un collectif de quatre ONG dont l'association Sherpa. Le PCN français, désigné chef de file, a examiné la saisine puis il a publié un Rapport le 3 juin 2013 et a conduit une médiation entre le Groupe Bolloré et Sherpa qui a abouti à un plan d'action par la Socapalm.
The Unfolding Humanitarian Crisis Around Lake Chad: UN Report Falls Short of Naming Environmental Dimensions
It is encouraging to see that the United Nations Security Council is beginning to acknowledge the transboundary dimensions of fragility and conflict, as demonstrated by its newly launched Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in the Lake Chad Basin region.
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New Security Beat
New Security Beat is the blog of the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program, with contributions from the Maternal Health Initiative, China Environment Forum, Urban Sustainability Laboratory,
Kidnapping, Torture, and Stolen Land: The Brutal Reality of Ethiopia's New Sugar Wars
Ethiopia's Mursi tribe says they were imprisoned and tortured to protect Chinese sugar plantations.
OMO VALLEY, Ethiopia — One night, in his village of 20 grass huts in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, Golonkiwo had a nightmare. As a komoru, or mystic of the Mursi tribe, Golonkiwo’s duty is to receive and interpret dream prophecies. It is a vital role, passed down from father to son in one of the world’s oldest surviving cultures.
“In my dream, I saw the government soldiers coming for us,” Golonkiwo stated. “They killed a lot of people.”
Negotiating Mozambique’s new commodity frontiers from the perspective of a conservationist
[C]onservation is not a priority….. they [Frelimo] want economic growth at any point. So if they find …… coal and gas and other minerals it doesn’t matter where they are found, their priority is to develop those industries and I think they will worry about ecosystems ……. as an afterthought. Right now their main focus is growth, economic growth. (Interview with government official, discussing the governing party’s view of conservation in the context of a resources boom, 14 May 2014).
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