A lawsuit filed in the Ugandan district of Mbale in 2020, shortly after weather experts warned that eastern Uganda would receive some of the heaviest rains in years is indicative of a broader, if still uneven, movement across Africa in recent years: Communities and activists are increasingly turning to the courts to challenge governments and […]
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Africa’s Longest Crude Oil Export Pipeline Isn’t Just Taking Indigenous Land, It Is Disturbing the Dead
Indigenous communities say burial sites are being disturbed by the EACOP project in Uganda and Tanzania, and compensation is not adequate to move graves.
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World’s Largest Soil-Carbon Project Faces Backlash From Pastoralist Communities
A Kenyan court ruled that the project did not properly consult communities and ordered credit verification organization Verra to investigate.
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As Europe Leaves Controversial Treaty, the Secretariat Courts Resource-Rich African Countries
European countries are leaving the Energy Charter Treaty amid concerns that it blocks national climate action. Internal documents reveal that the Secretariat of the investor-friendly mechanism is now wooing African countries.
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An official publication of the ECT Secretariat titled ‘Africa and the Energy Charter: the bountiful continent and the energy conundrum
This publication claims, among other things, that ratification of the ECT is the way “to overcome energy poverty” in Africa.
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Uganda’s Crude Oil Pipeline Faces Fresh Hurdles from Campaigners
After clearing its many financing hurdles, now EACOP is facing various legal claims that could slow its progress.
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Dispatch from the Front Lines of Mozambique’s Gas Gamble
Mozambique’s LNG project was supposed to bring prosperity to the country. Instead it has fueled the fires of civil unrest. And while local residents are struggling to survive, a small cadre of elite consultants have found success amidst the rubble.
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Ugandan Communities Say Total’s Oil Project Is More of a Land Grab than a Development Opportunity
Fred Balikenda and his family were forcefully evicted from their home in Kirama village, Buliisa district on May 13, 2024 to make way for the Tilenga project. Photo by Diana Taremwa-Karakire. When Jealousy Mugisa Mulimba, a 52-year-old father of nine in Uganda’s oil-rich Buliisa district, was informed he would need to move his family from […]
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Pipe Dreams: Tanzania’s Oil Gamble
As funding for the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline barrels ahead, locals are dealing with the harsh realities of displacement.