Friends of the Earth said a legal challenge to the British government which seeks to block a $1.15 billion financing for a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project in Mozambique will be heard in the High Court on Tuesday.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed financial sanctions on Uganda's chief of military intelligence, Major General Abel Kandiho, over alleged human rights abuses committed under his watch.
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on more than a dozen people and entities in Iran, Syria and Uganda, accusing them of being connected to serious human rights abuses and repressive acts.
When she was growing up, Tima Abudhi remembers watching her neighbours cut away at the mangrove forests around her village on Pate Island, on Kenya's east coast, chopping down the coastal trees to build houses or to sell as timber.