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Zimbabwe Criticized for Planned Eviction of Indigenous Minority March 14, 2021 share Print Amnesty International is criticizing Zimbabwe's plan to evict 12,000 members of the Shangani indigenous minority from ancestral land. Zimbabwe's government this week indicated the evictions, which will make way for animal feed production, will go ahead despite a court order to halt the move. Robert Shivambu, Amnesty International's spokesman for Southern Africa, said Zimbabwe should stop the planned evictions of the Shangani people, who live in Chiredzi district’s Chilonga village on the border with M...

Thousands at risk of displacement due to imminent forced evictions in Eswatini and Zimbabwe Format Thousands at risk of displacement due to imminent forced evictions in Eswatini and Zimbabwe The threat of forced eviction is putting thousands of people across Southern Africa at serious risk amid the pandemic, Amnesty International said today. The organization highlighted two cases, in Eswatini and Zimbabwe, where authorities are attempting to remove people from their homes to make way for commercial interests, without following procedural safeguards and offering them any alternative accommodat...

11 March 2021, 21:39 UTC Thousands at risk of displacement due to imminent forced evictions in Eswatini and Zimbabwe The threat of forced eviction is putting thousands of people across Southern Africa at serious risk amid the pandemic, Amnesty International said today. The organization highlighted two cases, in Eswatini and Zimbabwe, where authorities are attempting to remove people from their homes to make way for commercial interests, without following procedural safeguards and offering them any alternative accommodation. In Madonsa town in Eswatini, more than 100 people have been living un...

Uganda: ICC conviction of LRA commander provides overdue justice for victims of decades-long campaign of abuses Format 4 Feb 2021 Following today’s International Criminal Court (ICC) conviction of Dominic Ongwen, a former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in northern Uganda, Seif Magango, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for East Africa, the Horn and Great Lakes, said: “We hope this decision provides a measure of redress for the 4,000 victims who participated in the case and who can now receive reparat...