Lives of semi-nomadic tribespeople being irreversibly changed by relocation into poorly planned settlements to do way for sugar plantation,says released reportA controversial World Bank-funded scheme to dam a major Ethiopian river and import up to 500000 people to work in what is planned to be one of the world’s largest sugar plantations has led to tens of thousands of Africa’s most remote and vulnerable people being insensitively resettled.
According to reports, released this week, and by two teams of British,American and EU diplomats who visited the resettlement areas in the Lower Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia last year, the lives of 20000 Mursi, and Bodi and other semi-nomadic tribespeople are being “fundamentally and irreversibly” changed by the mega-project.
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Source: theguardian.com