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Amnesty International released a statement Wednesday condemning Tanzanian violence towards the Maasai ethnic group. Fears are mounting as the indigenous Maasai are being severely injured by Tanzanian soldiers. Tanzania is planning on using Maasai lands in endeavors such as conservation and hunting excursions. Hunting plans drafted in 1992, along with UNESCO protections, caused multiple problems [...]

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Caleb Keraka is a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kenya and a fourth-year law student at the University of Nairobi School of Law.  On April 8th in Nairobi the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) formally joined the East African Community (EAC) bloc by signing the EAC Accession Treaty. This came after meeting the requisite conditions [...]

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The government of Tanzania Friday dropped charges relating to economic crimes and terrorism against Freeman Mbowe, according to Tanzania’s opposition party. Freeman Mbowe was arrested last July in a nighttime raid by the local police hours before he was scheduled to hold a press conference to push for constitutional reforms. His party, Democracy and Progress [...]

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The Court of Cassation, France’s highest court, ruled Wednesday to resolve procedural issues in favor of six nonprofit groups in their case against oil giant Total Uganda. Six French and Ugandan civil society organizations (CSOs) brought the case against Total in 2019: Friends of the Earth France, Survie, Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO), CRED, [...]

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Tanzanian officials on Sunday suspended another newspaper accused of false stories, despite President Samia Suluhu Hassan pledging to uphold the media freedoms that had been revoked by her predecessor, the late John Pombe Magufuli. The newspaper, Raia Mwema (which translates to Good Citizen), is a leading weekly Swahili newspaper that has been suspended for 30 [...]

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Climate change is a serious challenge facing countries. Least developed countries (LDCs) are the most vulnerable to climate change impacts due to a lack of adequate resources, particularly technological resources, required to mitigate/adapt to climate change impacts within their territories. Some international agreements recognize this technology challenge faced by LDCs and thus provide for technology [...]

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Tanzanian opposition leader Freeman Mbowe was charged with terrorism on Monday. Mbowe, the chairman of Chama Cha Demokrasia Na Maedeleo (Chadema), was arrested on July 21 along with 10 other party officials. In a statement shared by journalist Samira Sawlani on Monday, Chadema said Mbowe was arraigned in a magistrate court in Kitsutu and charged with [...]

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Tanzania’s new president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, ordered the Ministry of Information, Culture, Arts and Sports to lift the ban on media outlets Tuesday. “For the Ministry of Information, Culture, Arts and Sports, I’m told that you revoked licenses of some media outlets including online television stations. You should lift the ban and order them to [...]

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