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23 Jan 2018

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Reuters

EU suspends funding for climate change project after indigenous herder is killed by forest guards

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"EU suspends Kenya water conservation funding after tribesman killed"

The European Union has shelved a 3.6 billion shilling ($35 million) water conservation assistance scheme to Kenya after forest guards killed a member of a community indigenous to one of the forests involved in the project...Stefano Dejak, the EU ambassador to Kenya, said...[the] killing of the man, and the shooting of another, in Embobut forest in the west of the country, came after the bloc had told the government it would reconsider financial support if the use of force against innocent locals persisted.

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