Los pueblos indígenas del valle bajo del Omo apenas han sido consultados sobre estos proyectos en su tierra, y cualquier atisbo de resistencia se topa con intimidaciones y la fuerza bruta.
Ethiopian Sugar Corp. is tapping loans from Development Bank of China to build six sugar-processing factories and plant 150,000 hectares of sugar cane in the region bordering Kenya. This may exacerbate conflict in the ethnically diverse region.
- Africa Intelligence Media
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11 Mar 2015
The Kwegu, the smallest and most vulnerable tribe in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley, is starving as a result of the massive Gibe III dam and associated large-scale irrigation for commercial plantations on tribal land.
- Survival International
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10 Mar 2015
The approach taken by Ethiopia and India to reaching development goals and fulfilling environmental promises by leasing or buying large tracts of fertile land affects land, water and indigenous people.
- Digital Journal
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03 Mar 2015
World Bank and China join Ethiopia's government to relocate 200,000 villagers of the Omo River and Lake Turkana Valley to replace them with super-irrigation plantations.
- Digital Journal
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24 February 2015
A land grab twice the size of France is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the seizure of indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations.
- The Ecologist
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16 February 2015
World of Matter project provides video and photos about large-scale agricultural projects, including the Pinesso Group's operations in Sudan and Karuturi's farms in Ethiopia
- World of Matter
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11 February 2015
En Ethiopie, les déplacements forcés et la déportation des peuples indigènes de leurs terres ancestraux suscitent de plus en plus de critiques et de plaintes judiciaires.
Internal watchdog finds link between World Bank financing and Ethiopian government's mass resettlement of indigenous group
Director of agricultural investment at Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture says Karuturi is on the verge of collapsing in Ethiopia and that the company "has gone bankrupt following internal management crisis”
- The Reporter
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17 January 2015
Turkey's Ayka Investment is in the process of withdrawing its investment in cotton production in the Lower Omo Valley on the advice of its German customer Tchibo which has raised concerns about cotton projects in the area.
- Ecotextile News
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15 January 2015
Kenyans near world’s largest desert lake predict conflict, hunger and cultural devastation when hydroelectric project and sugar plantations are completed.
