Early warning mechanisms key to calming ethnic tensions
By Billy Rwothungeyo, Africa Media Officer at Minority Rights Group The Rwenzori region in Uganda is volatile, simmering tensions between…
By Billy Rwothungeyo, Africa Media Officer at Minority Rights Group The Rwenzori region in Uganda is volatile, simmering tensions between…
Mondorosi, Sukenya and Soitsambu Village Councils v Tanzania Breweries Limited, Tanzania Conservation Ltd, Ngorongoro District Council, Commissioner for Lands and…
A High Court ruling, handed down today, against a Maasai community from Northern Tanzania, is deeply disappointing, says Minority Rights…
Minority Rights Group (MRG) welcomes the formal adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but calls on all governments to…
Profile Diverse communities including Kalenjin (a collective term encompassing diverse indigenous peoples including the Kipsigis, Endorois, Tugen, Pokot and Sabaot),…
Profile Ambo, Nyaneka-Nkumbi (Nyaneka-Humbe), Herero and other semi-nomadic cattle-keeping peoples live in the south-western provinces. Himba and related pastoralist groups such as Kuvale and Zemba speak Herero-derived languages. …
Minority Rights Group International (MRG) urges the Ugandan government to use constructive dialogue to resolve a persistent conflict between minority…
By Rebecca Marlin, Legal Fellow at Minority Rights Group International (MRG) We pulled up to a small mountain town in…
Writing from our Africa Office in Kampala, MRG intern Biraanu Gammachu sheds light on the Ethiopian government’s unpopular national development project. …
As we settle into 2014, MRG and partners recall the highlights of the year that was… ‘This ruling from the…