Human rights violations against the Maasai: Maasai Indigenous People have written to Tanzania’s donors to stop the plans for evictions and the human rights abuses in Ngorongoro and Loliondo in Tanzania.
Category: Tanzania
Al Jazeera: Why are Tanzania’s Maasai being forced off their ancestral land?
By Chris Lang Maasai Indigenous people living in Loliondo Division of Ngorongoro District in Tanzania continue to be threatened with evictions. Since 1992, the government has issued permits on an area of 4,000 square kilometres of land to a hunting tourism company called Otterlo Business Corporation. The company is owned by Dubai Royals.
Stop the evictions of 70,000 Maasai in Loliondo, Tanzania
Stop the evictions: The Government of Tanzania is yet again threatening to forcibly evict Maasai Indigenous people from their ancestral land in Ngorongoro District.
Fortress conservation threatens Maasai pastoralists in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area: “The Government is systematically starving us”
Fortress conservation threatens the livelihoods of Maasai pastoralists who have lived in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area for generations.
A new threat to the Maasai in Ngorongoro District of Tanzania
By Chris Lang Over the past decade, Indigenous Maasai communities living in Ngorongoro District in Tanzania have faced a series of violent evictions. The government recently announced that more evictions are planned, under a proposal to divide the Ngorongoro Conservation Area into four zones.