Today, April 17, is the International Day of Peasant Struggle – a day to highlight the persecution and violence suffered by peasants and farmers around the world on a daily basis as a result of neoliberal policies. Increasingly, peasant farmers and land-based peoples are facing grave crises of human rights and dignity as big agribusiness, Read more
On January 1, 2024, Ethiopia signed an agreement with Somaliland – a breakaway region of Somalia – to use the territory’s port of Berbera. A post shared on Facebook on the same day claimed the deal gave Ethiopia ownership of the port. However, this is misleading: although the agreement guarantees landlocked Ethiopia leased access to Read more