It is with great sadness and grief that we announce the passing away of our long-time partner Ibrahim Njobdi of Lelewal. He is one in this photo. He got sick of meningitis in the past few months and he never recovered from this. He was the i Director of Lelewal, an indigenous peoples institution based in Yaounde, Cameroon. Lelewal is a member of the Indigenous Peoples Global Partnership on Climate Change, Forests and Sustainable Development, which Tebtebba has been convening for the past 6 - 7 years. Ibrahim has been doing community strengthening work with the Mbororo and Pygmies in Cameroon who are fighting for their rights to their lands and forests. He is a councilor in his own hometown. He has also taken part in all the negotiations of the UNFCCC since Copenhagen up to the Conference of Parties in Warsaw last year. He took part in many of the global and regional training workshops and seminars organized by the Partnership and various learning exchange visits of the members of the partnership, in Kalimantan, Indonesia; Roraima, Raposas del Sur, Brazil; RAAN in Nicaragua; Philippines: Nepal, among others. The Tebtebba family and the members of the Partnership express our deepest sympathies and condolences for his family and his colleagues.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:30:10 +0000
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