East Africa has been suffering from severe drought for two years in a row. This is one of the numerous impacts of climate change that drastically affects people who have least contributed to it. Earlier this month, Enkishon Indigenous Initiative, a community-based organization devoted to supporting Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya,
The Tanzanian government’s attempts to evict the Maasai from their ancestral lands in Loliondo have intensified over the past few months. Criminalization and stigmatization are used as a means to turn the territory of the Maasai into a game area for elite tourism. In June, we shared the struggle of the
On June 23rd, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ruled that the Kenyan government must grant the Ogiek people collective land title to the Mau forest and pay them $1.3 million as compensation for historical injustices. This is a landmark victory for the Ogiek who have been suffering
Last month, we shared the struggle of Ngorongoro, Tanzania, which covers the Indigenous Maasai People’s continued resistance to government-led displacement of their people from their ancestral homelands. As mentioned, this case is by far not one of its kind. On June 10th, the Maasai pastoralists of Loliondo, on the northern
“This is our territory, territory means life; our identity and we can’t survive without. The fortress conservation model pushes our people out of their land. We need local and global synergies to stop land grabbing and eviction of the Indigenous pastoralists of Ngorongoro.” – Maasai Leader (name withheld for security
Internationally funded park guards have been killing and terrorizing Indigenous Batwa living in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park, in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to a recent investigation conducted by Minority Rights Group International. The investigation took place between 2019 and 2021 and draws from interviews with 550 eyewitnesses
