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23 July 2008

Advocacy

  • The French financiers have now declined to fund the Tana sugar project, citing concerns by local people, civil society and now the court case.
  • Emails to NEMA, from different corners of the world, protesting against the sugarcane project have started trickling in.
  • BirdLife campaign: BirdLife South Africa has put up a brief on Tana in their website 
  • Wetland international has written to the Hon. John Michuki, Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources, on the sugarcane project.  Please click here (application/pdf, 1.3 MB, info) to download a copy.
  • The Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNHRC) has joined the campaign against the Tana sugar project, on matters related to the violation of human rights.

Publicity

22nd July 2008

  • Daily Nation under the Smart Company pullout, History runs against Tana Sugar project (application/pdf, 509.2 kB, info). In this article Wachira Kang’aru, a nation reporter, has given a spot on analysis of all the failed irrigation projects in the Tana Delta, dating as far back as 1954.

11th July 2008

  • The Standard, a short opinion article by Anderson Mwaloma, supporting environmentalists and local communities
  • Aljazeera will tour the Tana Delta to interview local people and collect footage of the delta to be aired on Monday 14th July

More…

Sunday 20th July 2008

The Tana Delta local community, both farmers and pastoralists converged at the Danisa grounds for a prayer meeting. They prayed for their land not to be taken away from them.

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