No REDD in Africa Network: Letter to the Kenyan Government and the UN protesting the evictions from the Embobut Forest.
Category: Kenya
Indigenous peoples evicted and their homes set on fire: Embobut forest, Kenya
Kenya Forest Service guards are evicting Sengwer indigenous people from their homes in the Embobut forest in Kenya. The guards have burned people’s homes and set fire to their possessions.
Stop the illegal evictions from the Embobut Forest in Kenya
Evictions have started of Sengwer indigenous people and other communities from the Embobut Forest in Western Kenya. Armed guards from the Kenya Forest Service have moved into the area to evict people, despite an injunction preventing evictions from the forest.
Forced eviction by Kenya threatens indigenous communities’ human rights and ancestral forests
Forest Peoples Programme reports that police troops in Kenya have been sent to the Embobut forest to evict thousands of indigenous Sengwer and Cherangany communities.
Urgent appeal against the forced eviction of Sengwer/Cherangany communities in Kenya
Forest Peoples Programme has put out an appeal against the forced eviction of 6,000-7,000 indigenous people and other communities from the Embobut Forest in Western Kenya. FFP, together with communities and partners on the ground are asking organisations to sign on to the appeal.