Ethiopia

Ethiopians stormed the 17th Street Office complex of the World Bank in Washington DC, protesting the bank’s alleged support for land grab and ethnic cleansing by President Girma Wolde-Giorgis

With the large and sometimes overexposed attention for land grabbing in Africa, good examples tend to be forgotten

Karuturi Global Limited, société holding de droit indien et dont le siège est situé à Bangalore, peut se retrouver sous la loupe de l'administration fiscale du Kenya pour fraude fiscale, mais les plaintes déposées contre elle vont plus loin.

Le gouvernement kenyan a déclaré Karuturi coupable de fraude fiscale. C'est la première fois qu'un gouvernement africain traduit une importante société multinationale en justice pour une manipulation des prix de transfert par le biais d'une procédure entièrement publique.

El gobierno de Kenya halló culpable de evasión fiscal a Karuturi Global Ltd, el productor de rosas cortadas más grande del mundo. Ésta es la primera vez que un gobierno africano lleva a los tribunales —mediante un proceso público— a una enorme compañía multinacional por manipular sus precios de transferencia.

The Kenyan government has found Karuturi Global Ltd, the world's biggest producer of cut roses, guilty of tax evasion. This is the first time an African government has brought a large multinational company to court for transfer mispricing through a fully public process.

Nota de contexto que acompaña al boletín de prensa del 19 de abril de 2013

Background note to accompany a joint press release on the Kenyan government finding Karuturi Global Ltd guilty of tax evasion

Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Dessalegn has denied that the government is forcing tens of thousands of people off their land in order to lease it to foreign investors.

The following is a statement from the Oromo Studies Association (OSA).

When the Ethiopian government completes the Gibe III dam on the upper Omo, as it is expected to do shortly, large-scale irrigation will follow, allowing government sugar plantations to gobble up huge swathes of their ancestral land.

Horizon Plantations, an emerging agro-specialized business owned by Sheikh Mohammed Hussein al-Amoudi, plans to compete with world’s leading banana producers following acquisition of several state enterprises.