At least 14,000 Nigerian residents from the oil-producing Niger Delta region have filed a compensation claim against Shell, saying that oil spills resulting from the oil Read more »
Tanzanian Maasai who took their government to court over a land dispute that resulted in alleged evictions, loss of land, and in some cases, deaths, have vowed to lodge an appeal Read more »
Public Works and Infrastructure Minister, Patricia de Lille, has moved to assure South Africans that government has no intention of using the Expropriation Bill to arbitrarily ... Read more »
The second in the series of sustainable alternatives to chemical fertilisers amid a global shortage looks at urine or what some experts call liquid gold. allAfrica's Melody ... Read more »
The Lands, Housing and Urban Development ministry is implementing the Land Information Management System (LMIS) with support from the World Bank to improve the efficiency and ... Read more »
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) has warned that plans by the governments of Zimbabwe and Zambia for the development of a golf course, ... Read more »
The decision by the African Court on Human and People's Rights five years ago, to award reparations to Kenya's Ogiek indigenous people, for harm they su Read more »
Farm workers and consumers should be worried, says a public health expert. But industry body says food security depends on the pesticides in use, writes < Read more »
Climate activists have demanded answers from Standard Bank for its involvement and continued support for oil and gas projects on the African continent, even as the worst effects of ... Read more »
Chima Williams has for years confronted powerful oil majors who degraded the Niger Delta environment. As an environmental lawyer, he has won multiple precedent-setting cases in the ... Read more »
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