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Ethiopia: stealing the Omo Valley, destroying its ancient Peoples - The Ecologist
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A land grab twice the size of France is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the wholesale seizure if indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations for sugar, palm oil, cotton and biofuels run by foreign corporations, destroying ancient cultures and turning Lake Turkana, the world’s largest desert lake, into a new Aral Sea.

#éthiopie #terres #barrage #peuples_autochtones #agrobusiness

Ethiopian tribes’ ancient ways threatened by UK-backed sugar project
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A massive sugar plantation and up to 700,000 migrant workers will occupy almost 2,000 sq.km of Ethiopia’s #Omo Valley, with the help of British aid finance. But the valley’s native inhabitants have been given no choice in the matter, and are being forced to abandon their homes, lands, cattle, and entire way of life, or go to jail.

#Ethiopie #terres #Royaume-Uni