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Despite the president's decision not to sign the bill, protests are planned due to mistrust in President William Ruto's promises to withdraw tax hikes and make budget cuts. Last week's violent protests, which included storming and burning part of the parliament building, have heightened tensions. Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua urged protesters to call off the demonstrations and pursue dialogue.
Euronews (English)
By Solomon Yimer BAHIR DAR, Ethiopia — The Zege Peninsula, a hidden gem on the southern shore of Lake Tana, is a serene escape in Ethiopia’s north. As the boat glides across the tranquil waters, Zege’s verdant silhouette emerges on the horizon, framed by lush greenery and small islands. Disembarking, we followed a winding path through majestic forests. At the end of the trail: Ura Kidane Mihret, the peninsula’s oldest and most revered monastery, surrounded by seven ancient churches and smaller monasteries. On the sacred grounds of Ura Kidane Mihret, Aba Gebresilase Abebe, donning a humble blac...
Mongabay
By Juliet Akoth Ojwang As millions of farmers suffer each year from crop and livestock deaths due to pests and diseases, some growers in Africa are turning to a host of advanced technologies, artificial intelligence (AI) and online tools to complement the services offered by extension agents in helping farmers combat these losses. PlantVillage (PV), a U.S.-based nonprofit that aims to improve the lives of farmers and agricultural productivity globally through knowledge and technology, is one key example. The organization’s eponymous AI PlantVillage app uses a technology called TensorFlow to id...
Mongabay
By Victoria Schneider In 2023, Socfin hired a consultancy to investigate longstanding allegations of human rights violations and environmental damage raised by communities living around the Belgian transnational company’s oil palm and rubber plantations in Africa and Southeast Asia. Findings from a second round of investigations have now been published. Supply chain consultancy Earthworm Foundation’s investigators visited a subsidiary in Sierra Leone, the Socfin Agricultural Company (SAC), and one of the holding group’s four Cameroonian operations, SAFACAM. They found evidence of sexual harass...
Mongabay
アフリカのケニアで起きた、増税法案への反対デモで、警察との衝突で死者が少なくとも23人に上り、約30...
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Kenya’s President William Ruto on Wednesday withdrew the controversial finance bill that has sparked widespread protests and violence across the nation. The decision comes after the bill, which includes significant tax hikes, was passed by parliament but met with fierce opposition from the public and led to deadly clashes. Finance bill sparks nationwide unrest The finance bill, aimed at raising an additional $2.7 billion (£2.1 billion) through tax increases, has been at the centre of nationwide protests. On Tuesday, police opened fire on crowds gathered around parliament, with some protesters ...
Invezz
Thousands of protesters stormed parliament following opposition to a new finance bill. At least five people have been killed. Protesters had demanded that legislators vote against the bill imposing new taxes on a country, East Africa's economic hub. Lawmakers voted to pass the bill, then fled through a tunnel as protesters, many of them youth, outmanoeuvred police to enter parliament. Protesters allowed opposition legislators who voted against the bill to walk out of the besieged building. The fire in the building was later put out.
Euronews (English)
Violence broke out again today in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, as well as several other towns and villages, as the latest in an ongoing protest against both a proposed financial bill and the nation’s president. Earlier today on June 25, riots throughout the African nation of Kenya gained steam, with many being wounded in altercations between protestors and police. This comes after previous unrest last week, on June 20, resulted in more clashes between protesters and police, killing at least one Kenyan in the struggle and injuring several others. Crowd control gone wrongKenyan politicians met...
Invezz
A part of Kenya's parliament building was set on fire on Tuesday as thousands of protesters against a new finance bill entered the building, in what is the most direct assault on the government in decades. Journalists in Nairobi reported at least three dead bodies outside the complex where police had opened fire on protesters. They had demanded that legislators vote against a controversial bill imposing new taxes on a country where frustrations over the high cost of living have simmered for years. The protesters outmanoeuvred police to enter parliament shortly after politicians voted to pass t...
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By Ryan Truscott In 2019, there were around 100 families living in the Katanino Forest Reserve, cutting down trees to produce charcoal in mud-covered kilns, and selling the fuel by the bag on a nearby road leading to major cities in Zambia’s Copperbelt province. That same year, conservation group WeForest began working with the Zambian Forestry Department and members of the local community to restore the reserve. Four years on, hundreds of hectares of degraded forest have grown back from severed stumps. Morton Shanzi, manager of the Katanino Forest Landscape Restoration Project, told Mongabay ...
Mongabay
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