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Typhoo Tea on brink of collapse, with more than 100 jobs at risk

AOL 15 Nov 2024
The overhaul was intended to stop sexual violence against women working on tea plantations in east Africa, and resulted in reducing the number of plantations in its supply chain in the region from 300 to just three ... Typhoo and EY declined to comment. .
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Trouble brewing at Britain

The Daily Mail 15 Nov 2024
Further afield, Typhoo has recently gone from working with 300 tea plantations in East Africa to just three. It's part of a push launched as the new CEO took over to overhaul its supply chain and stop sexual violence against women at the plantations ... .
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Palm Beach mansion relisted at higher price of $83.5M. after undergoing more renovations

Palm Beach Daily News 13 Nov 2024
When the house won the Schuler Award, Kahan said the design recalls the look of 18th- and 19th-century plantation homes built by the British throughout the world — particularly those found in Asia, he said, but also in Africa and the Caribbean ... *.
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The island of Mauritius, praised as an African success story, will hold its national election

Wtop 08 Nov 2024
The World Bank has described Mauritius, a former colony of sugar plantations, as a “beacon of success for sub-Saharan Africa” and says it has achieved remarkable economic growth since independence ... The Africa Center for Strategic Studies, a U.S.
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Emlyn Marimutu – “Music is a spiritual force. It is the essence of life”

Hindustan Times 04 Nov 2024
It is the very essence of our traditional music in the sense that our ancestors were forcefully brought from the coast of Madagascar and Africa and made to work on sugarcane plantations in Mauritius.
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Edra Soto On Puerto Rican Art, Public Sculpture and Her New NYC Installation ‘Graft’

New York Observer 02 Nov 2024
... architecture, which incorporates quiebrasoles and rejas, originated from Sub-Saharan Africa through the population brought to Puerto Rico as slaves to work plantations during the rise of colonization.
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Commonwealth leaders announce discussions on UK slavery reparations

Jurist 27 Oct 2024
... goods to Africa, exchanged them for enslaved Africans, and then carried those individuals across the Atlantic to work on plantations in the Americas, particularly in the Caribbean and North America.
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Calls for reparations for Britain's slave trade are rooted in dark legacy

Colorado Springs Gazette 25 Oct 2024
Goods were traded in West Africa for captured slaves who were shipped across the Atlantic to work in British sugar and tobacco plantations in the Caribbean and the Americas ...Plantation owners, some of ...
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Why the call for slavery reparations is a scam

The Spectator 24 Oct 2024
... remained in West Africa ... But this is an even more problematic concept, not least because Caribbean governments are the successor organisations of the colonial authorities which oversaw the plantations.
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Ferry dock collapse on Sapelo Island: What is the Gullah Geechee history?

Savannah Morning News 21 Oct 2024
The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of African Americans who were enslaved on plantations along the lower Atlantic coasts. Many came from West Africa's rice-growing regions.
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Officials search for answers after collapse of dock in Georgia kills 7

West Hawaii Today 21 Oct 2024
A view from the ferry of its dock and gangway in 2020 on Sapelo Island, Ga. (Rinne Allen/The New York Times) ... ADVERTISING ... “From Africa, to the way that it was on the plantation, to the 21st century with the young folks and what they do.” ... .
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7 dead identified in Georgia island gangway collapse during celebratory weekend

NBC Bay Area 21 Oct 2024
U.S ... Their culture has employed parts of indigenous African traditions continuously since its first adherents were forcibly removed from Africa and brought to the Southeastern United States against their will and enslaved on plantations ... .
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At least seven dead after Georgia ferry dock gangway collapses

The Spokesman-Review 20 Oct 2024
The dock was carrying people gathered for an annual celebration of a community of slave descendants ... “From Africa, to the way that it was on the plantation, to the 21st century with the young folks and what they do.” ... J.R ... .
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Real World Economics: Nobelists’ work seems obvious, yet still vital

Pioneer Press 20 Oct 2024
Repressive plantation and mine owners enslaved indigenous peoples or brought slaves from Africa to labor at producing export goods ... This generally did not happen in tropical countries in South America, Africa or Asia.
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Study offers participant views of community-based natural resource management in Ghana

Phys Dot Org 09 Oct 2024
Despite decades of major investments in conservation-related foreign development aid, West Africa's majestic rainforests and savannas have increasingly been converted to plantation agriculture and ...

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