The World Bank’s inspection panel has found that the Bank violated its safeguards in a conservation project in the Cherangany Hills in Kenya. Thousands of Sengwer indigenous people have been evicted and their homes burned down.
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No REDD in Africa Network: “Forced Relocation of Sengwer People proves urgency of canceling REDD”
The No REDD in Africa Network has released a letter to the United Nations and the Kenyan Government condemning the evictions of the Sengwer Indigenous People from their homes in the Embobut Forest.
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.