Guinea has handed over a plot of land to thousands forcibly evicted by previous governments, with some of the victims having waited more than 25 years for compensation. More than 20,000 people were ...

Conakry - Over 100 people have sought refuge in a church in south-eastern Guinea after violence broke out in their village over attempts by authorities to forcibly expropriate their land, a spokesman ...

On May 28th the parliament in Papua New Guinea passed a sweeping amendment that protects resource corporations from any litigation related to environmental destruction, labor laws, and landowner abuse ...

CONAKRY, GuineaCONAKRY, Guinea — A witness says soldiers have clashed with villagers in southern Guinea over an apparent land dispute in the West African nation. Witness Jean Kolie says 60 people were ...

This page uses JavaScript to play video files. Mamadou Bah’s ancestral village is now almost entirely surrounded by bauxite mines and roads. “It hurts me to look at this,” says the farmer and ...

The images that shot around the world last week were shocking enough. The hacked bodies of women and children, victims of a bitter inter-clan conflict. Their remains wrapped in cloths, tied to ...

An organization dedicated to the removal of land mines from three conflicts in the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau says the country will become mine free in 2012. The land mine removal ...

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — A doctor says 20 people were killed when a minibus struck a land mine in Guinea-Bissau. Augusto Blute, a doctor based in the capital who treated several victims, said ...

Papua New Guinea’s rainforests, which span 28.2 million hectares (69.6 million acres), are among the most biodiverse in the ...

Yet there is a direct link between the protection of women's resources and food security. At 9am in Granja de Pessubé, agricultural workers, most of them women, have already been working for a couple ...