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					<title>Lesotho communities allege greenwashing by project transferring water to South Africa</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/lesotho-communities-allege-greenwashing-by-project-transferring-water-to-south-africa/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Nov 2025 17:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
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						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<![CDATA[Negotiating Africa's Energy Future]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Lesotho, South Africa, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Alternative Energy, Conflict, Dams, Energy, Environment, Environmental Law, Freshwater, Global Environmental Crisis, Greenwashing, Hydroelectric Power, Politics, Renewable Energy, Resource Conflict, Rivers, Social Justice, Water, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[Communities in Lesotho have filed a complaint with the African Development Bank over a controversial initiative that transfers water from the country to neighboring South Africa, one of the biggest such schemes on the African continent. The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), currently in its second phase, is funded in part by the African Development [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Communities in Lesotho have filed a complaint with the African Development Bank over a controversial initiative that transfers water from the country to neighboring South Africa, one of the biggest such schemes on the African continent. The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), currently in its second phase, is funded in part by the African Development Bank (AfDB). In the complaint submitted to the bank’s Independent Recourse Mechanism, seen by Mongabay, the complainants accuse the developers of promoting the LHWP as a climate mitigation project and ignoring its impacts on their communities and the environment, and call it “greenwashing.” “Some in the community say they were better off without the project, because instead of bringing a development that is expected from such projects, it has, in fact, brought them poverty,” said Mosa Letsie, a lawyer at the Seinoli Legal Centre (SLC) in Lesotho. The center provides legal assistance and advice to marginalized communities and worked with the affected communities to submit the complaint. Letsie said women were disproportionately impacted. Falls short in every respect, from inadequate consultation to compensation to the lack of benefits. The LHWP diverts water from the Senqu-Orange river system in the Lesotho highlands, through a series of dams, to the water-poor Gauteng province of South Africa, home to the country’s economic nerve center: the greater Johannesburg area. The centerpiece of phase 2 is the Polihali dam and reservoir. While the project documents explicitly state how much water will be transferred to South Africa, they make only promises&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/lesotho-communities-allege-greenwashing-by-project-transferring-water-to-south-africa/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Satellite trackers help fight vultures’ extinction in southern Africa</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/satellite-trackers-help-fight-vultures-extinction-in-southern-africa/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Dec 2018 15:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Munyaradzi Makoni]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Lesotho, South Africa, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Birds, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, data, GPS, Human-wildlife Conflict, Monitoring, Renewable Energy, Solutions, Technology, Tracking, Vultures, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Every other hour, Sonja Krüger logs onto her website and checks the birds’ status. Pharoah is taking a mud bath in the mountains, Jeremia is on a roost site viewing the Maloti mountain range, and Mollie is scouring the grasslands for a fresh carcass. “A GPS location of the birds is [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Every other hour, Sonja Krüger logs onto her website and checks the birds’ status. Pharoah is taking a mud bath in the mountains, Jeremia is on a roost site viewing the Maloti mountain range, and Mollie is scouring the grasslands for a fresh carcass. “A GPS location of the birds is taken very hour, and it shows where the vultures are flying to, at what speed, their favorite cliff roost sites, and where they feed,” Krüger, an ecologist with the NGO Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, told Mongabay. Data have told us a lot about these birds’ movement and population trends, she added. Ezemvelo runs Maloti-Drakensberg Park, a World Heritage Site within the mountain range of the same name. The range is home to vultures in Lesotho and the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and Free State in South Africa. An immature bearded vulture posing. Image by Sonja Krueger. The isolated southern African population of bearded vultures (Gypaetus barbatus meridionalis) has declined by more than 30 percent over the past few decades, with fewer than 350 individual birds and 109 breeding pairs remaining in the region. Cape vultures (Gyps coprotheres), found only in southern Africa, are endangered, with 2,900 breeding pairs. Approximately 1,450 individuals, roughly 20 percent of the population, live in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains. The roll call In 2006, Krüger started the Maloti-Drakensberg Vulture Project to address the decline in vulture populations within the mountains. She said the vultures feasted on carcasses and thus kept the environment clean,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/satellite-trackers-help-fight-vultures-extinction-in-southern-africa/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Food prices rise as food aid needed in Middle East and Africa</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/food-prices-rise-as-food-aid-needed-in-middle-east-and-africa/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Oct 2012 19:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Lesotho, Middle East, Sahel, Southern Africa, Syria, and Yemen]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Environment, Farming, Food, Food Prices, Global Environmental Crisis, and Green]]>
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							<![CDATA[A mother with her severely malnourished child in the Sahel region. Photo: UNICEF/Chad/2012/C Tidey. Food prices increased in September on the FAO Food Price Index after two months of stability, while food aid has been urgently called for in Yemen and Syria, and concerns lingered in parts of Africa. Food prices globally rose 3 points [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A mother with her severely malnourished child in the Sahel region. Photo: UNICEF/Chad/2012/C Tidey. Food prices increased in September on the FAO Food Price Index after two months of stability, while food aid has been urgently called for in Yemen and Syria, and concerns lingered in parts of Africa. Food prices globally rose 3 points (or 1.4 percent) to 216 points. Civil war in Syria has sparked a widespread food crisis there. Currently, 1.5 million people are in need of urgent food aid, though that&#8217;s expected to go higher as the now seemingly entrenched conflict continues. However, Yemen is even worse off. Conflict, in addition to high food and fuel prices have pushed 10 million people into requiring food aid there. Two thirds of the population, around 725,000 people, of the small nation of Lesotho are also facing a local food crisis after a series of poor harvests. Surrounded entirely by South Africa, Lesotho suffers from widespread poverty and one of the highest levels in the world of HIV. Meanwhile, famine concerns continue in the Sahel region of Africa, which lies just to the south of the Saharan Desert. A prolonged food crisis in the Sahel this year has impacted 19 million people across the region. Conflict in Mali, including nearly half a million refugees, has exasperated a region already hit hard by a series of droughts. New concerns have been raised about the possible impact of desert locusts as well. Globally food prices are hovering just below crisis levels,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/food-prices-rise-as-food-aid-needed-in-middle-east-and-africa/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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