Ethiopia: Pastoralists Forced Off Their Land For Sugar Plantations


Ethiopia: Pastoralists Forced Off Their Land For Sugar Plantations   The Ethiopian government is forcibly displacing indigenous pastoral communities in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo valley without adequate consultation or compensation to make way for state-run sugar plantations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The report contains previously unpublished government maps that show the extensive developments planned for the Omo valley, including irrigation canals, sugar processing...

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18 June 2012

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