Last week, the World Bank and the Kenyan Government held a meeting aimed at finding a positive way forward following years of evictions of indigenous people living in the Embobut Forest in the Cherangany Hills. Days before the meeting started, 30 Sengwer houses were burned.
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Kenya Forest Service guard: “Burning of houses will continue as long as the Sengwer build houses inside the forest”
This week in Eldoret, Kenya, the World Bank is hosting a Colloquium on “Deepening Dialogue with Stakeholders in the Forest Sector in Kenya”.
Just days before a meeting to resolve the crisis in the Embobut Forest, the Kenya Forest Service torched 30 houses
Over the past decade, Kenya Forest Service guards have repeatedly evicted people living in the Embobut Forest in the Cherangany Hills. On 25 February 2015, guards torched more than 30 houses belonging to the Sengwer indigenous people and destroyed school books, clothes and cooking utensils.
Guest Post: Sengwers Feeling the Heat in the Embobut Forest
Dean Puckett is a British documentary film-maker. He is currently in Kenya working on a film about the evictions of the Sengwer indigenous people from their homes in the Cherangani Hills.