African Parks, a charity organization associated with Prince Harry, admitted that his guards had committed human rights violations in Congo-Brazzaville, the BBC reported.
Prince Harry has been part of African parks since 2016. After six years of the President Meghan Markle joined her board in 2023. The BBC asked the Duke Sussex to comment on the current situation.
African parks based in Johannesburg are the main group for nature conservation, which controls 23 protected areas in 13 African countries. Is supported by powerful donors and receives over $ 500,000 ( £4.2 crore) in financing annually.
Accusations against the guardians
Members of the Baka community have previously made serious accusations. According to them, the Rangers reportedly defeated, the waterproof and raped the locals to keep them outside their ancestors, now from nature conservation.
African parks ordered a review. However, the complete message was not publicly shared. Instead, a short statement confirmed that the abuse occurred in the National Park-Kokoua. Did not give any specific details.
The British law firm Omnia Strategy LLP led the investigation of claims for abuse in the park. However, she shared findings only with African parks, not with the public. This raised concerns about transparency.
Omnius’ statement confirmed that the probe began in December 2023, but did not provide any details. The BBC applied for Omnia and involved the lawyers for the report, but refused to express themselves.
African parks
Survival International said the BBC that African parks promised more reports, employees and rules. However, these steps have not stopped serious human rights violations in the last decade.
“There is no reason to believe it will do so now,” he said.
He said that African parks knew about these problems since 2013. African Parks said they tried to contact survival for more details when the claims came out in 2024.
However, survival refused to cooperate because he wanted to protect local resources from damage. African Parks said they had improved their safety steps over the past five years, especially in the National Park Odza-Kokou.
He added an anthropologist to support Baka communities and cooperated with local human rights groups. She also promised independent control of human rights.
Survival was criticized by African parks for not share the results of their investigation. He also informed Prince Harry about the reported abuse of Baka people.
More problems for Prince Harry?
This has contributed to the list of disturbing news associated with Prince Harry recently. Another African charity organization, which was the Duke, had trouble.
Prince Harry previously left Senteball, the African charity he co -founded after a serious clash with the chair of Sophie Chandauk. Problems include racism, bullying, bad management and finance. Other administrators also resigned. Investigations are underway.
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