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Ethiopia's crackdown on land protests ongoing: rights group
By: Aaron Maasho
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: Mail Online / Reuters
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Ethiopia continues to crack down on demonstrators in its vast Oromiya region some four months after protests began over plans to develop an economic zone on what is now farmland around the capital, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
Australia: Advertising mogul Harold Mitchell backs WA Government plan to diversify rangelands
By: Richard Hudson
Date: March 2nd 2016
Source: ABC Australia
Advertising mogul Harold Mitchell is fully supporting the Western Australian Government's introduction of multi-use leases for rangelands making up about 87 per cent of the state.
War widows clear Colombia's landmines, one at a time
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: 13 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Getting rid of mines in Colombia - a land of mountains and jungle terrain - is a key challenge facing the battered nation and is a crucial for rural development and tackling poverty.
It's a task experts estimate will take a least a decade.
Kenya's rapid urbanisation takes toll on Maasai communal land
By: Shadrack Kavilu
Date: July 31st 2016
Source: Reuters
KITENGELA, Kenya, July 31(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It's just before sunset, the time of day when Maasai herdsman Josphat Ole Tonkei would have been counting his herd of cows after hours in the grazing fields, a few years ago.