A UN committee on Friday warned that the Maasai Indigenous people in Tanzania are facing forced evictions and abuses at the hands of security forces, raising the alarm over escalating human rights violations.
The UN Committee on the Elimination
Anticipating a Climate Moment in Arusha
Since becoming operational in 2006, the African Court on Human and Peoples‘ Rights (AfCHPR), based in Arusha, Tanzania, has never issued an advisory opinion as highly anticipated as the forthcoming advisory opinion on climate change. The opinion responds to
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (APRIL 6 – APRIL 10)
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Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of April 6, 2026.
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In Matiko
Courting Dignity: The East African Court of Justice and the Jurisprudence of Silence
Author: Carolyn W. Gatonye
Kabarak University
The silence of the East African Community (EAC) in the face of rising repression in Tanzania is deafening. Yet, this is hardly new thunder in the EAC bloc. Time and again, the region has
$90M Settlement Reached in LCM-Funded Claim Against Tanzania
As LFJ reported in July of last year, a claim funded by Litigation Capital Management (LCM) and brought against the Tanzanian Government had achieved a landmark victory, after Indiana Resources…
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ICSID Rules in Favour of LCM-Backed Indiana Resources Claim Against Tanzania
An area of litigation and arbitration that has become increasingly associated with funded claims is the world of international investment treaties, and claims brought by corporations against governments for being in breach of these treaties. The latest occurrence of such
Winshear Gold Commences Arbitration Proceedings Against the Government of Tanzania for the Expropriation of Its SMP Gold Project
Winshear Gold Corp. (TSXV: WINS) (‘Winshear’, the ‘Company’, or the ‘Claimant’), formerly Helio Resource Corp., provides the following update on the dispute with the United Republic of Tanzania (“Tanzania”) which is the subject of arbitration through the International Centre for Settlement of Investments Disputes (“ICSID”), a
Sudden Leap into Darkness: The case of Maasai Exclusion and marginalisation in Ngorongoro, Northern Tanzania
Joseph Moses Oleshangay[1] Ngorongoro, a World Heritage Site, Man and Biosphere Reserve, Global Geopark by UNESCO, and home for over 80,000 Maasai is under siege. The Maasai, a Nilotic ethnic group, have moved around the Ngorongoro and Serengeti areas while
The Dialogue on the Consent to the COVID-19 Vaccination in Tanzania: Legal Perspective
Mozart Hyera (The Open University of Tanzania), The Dialogue on the Consent to the COVID-19 Vaccination in Tanzania: Legal Perspective, SSRN (2021):It has been over a year and half now ever since the world was struck by the deadly
Tanzania Fends off Claim for AU $127 Million in Ntaka Mining Case
An update to an arbitration relating to the Ntaka Hill Nickel Project against the Republic of Tanzania was recently released by Indiana Resources.
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