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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

Compensation

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Africa

Ugandan Court Orders Compensation for Lord’s Resistance Army Victims

A Ugandan court has directed the government to pay up to US$2,740 to each victim of Thomas Kwoyelo, a former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army says Reuters. In October, Kwoyelo, the first senior LRA member convicted by Uganda’s judiciary, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for war crimes, including murder, rape, enslavement, torture, and kidnapping.

today17 December, 2024 5

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Zimbabwe to compensate white farmers

The government of Zimbabwe will start paying 3.5 billion USD in compensation to farmers who lost land under former President Robert Mugabe's administration. Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce's Christopher Mugaga told Newzroom Afrika that there have been different views on handling this issue.  Around 4,000 white farmers lost their homes and large areas of land when Zimbabwe's former president, Robert Mugabe, initiated a controversial and often violent land redistribution program […]

today17 October, 2024 76

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United Kingdom government to compensate for blood scandal

The UK government is setting out multi-billion dollar compensation plans after an infected blood scandal. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has apologised on behalf of successive governments which saw 30 000 people infected, and around 3000 deaths so far. A report by the Infected Blood Inquiry says doctors, the NHS, and the government were to blame for patients catching HIV and hepatitis while receiving care in the 1970s, 1980s, and early […]

today21 May, 2024 44

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Under the shadow of war in the DRC, a mining company’s actions face impunity

      Land grabbing, lack of consultation, communities wiped off maps, and impunity. These are the serious accusations made against the mining company Alphamin Bisie Mining SA by the Indigenous communities of Banamwesi and Motondo, which oversee community forest concessions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Years of complaints by these communities and civil society organizations have been met with no reaction from provincial government officials or […]

today28 March, 2024 29