Heavily armed police and rangers stormed Maasai villages, fired tear gas and live rounds, and bulldozed hundreds of houses as they sought to seize some 37,000 acres of land for a new game reserve.
On the other hand, when the Laikipiak were defeated by the Purko Maasai in an inter-clan feud around 1870 most of them fled to Kikuyu homes around Nyeri because they had relatives there.
"We will fight for our land until the end" reads a sign by a Maasai woman in 2013 More than 100 Maasai huts in Tanzania have been allegedly burned down by game reserve authorities near the ...
In recent years, the Maasai of the Ngorongoro district – a region renowned for abundant wildlife and the iconic Ngorongoro Crater – have been the target of these evictions. They’ve faced ...
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Tanzania: Plan for Maasai removal putting people at risk"The Maasai are being forcibly evicted under the ... health facilities, and residential homes. "Recently, the community has been complaining that the government is now stripping them of their ...
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