A rights watchdog is accusing the World Bank of enabling the Tanzanian government's violent expansion of a national park through financing from the global lender. The World Bank has failed to hold Tanzanian authorities accountable for serious rights violations, including...
KAMPALA, Uganda — A rights watchdog is accusing the World Bank of enabling the Tanzanian government's violent expansion of a national park through financing from the global lender.
In October 2022, Tanzania's government minister in charge of lands and human settlement announced a plan to evict people from five villages with a combined population of more than 21,000. In correspondence with the Oakland Institute, the World Bank says it is not funding efforts by Tanzanian authorities to regularize park boundaries. The bank notes that it doesn't fund the procurement of weapons and insists that activities related to the extension of park boundaries “fall outside the scope of" REGROW, which started in 2017.
Habib Mchange, an environmental activist in Tanzania, said authorities “are currently doing assessments and evaluations” ahead of what is expected to be a protracted eviction and resettlement process. “This is just another episode in an escalating campaign of violence waged by the Tanzanian government against communities living near across the country,” the Oakland Institute report said.
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