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Governor Joseph Ole Lenku warned those opposing President Ruto's directive to stop.

Over 40 representatives held peaceful processions in Nairobi, demanding justice

State is evicting the Ogiek from the complex on the premise of conservation efforts

Absa Bank Kenya has planted over 100,000 trees at Njukiini Forest in Embu County as part of the World Environment Week.

Kenya is a country of contradictions, and this article has my anger shooting off the roof. How can we be talking of hunger and drought

For 13 years, the Indigenous Ogiek people have been embroiled in a legal battle with the Kenyan government for legal recognition of their rights to the Mau Forest, the largest remaining indigenous forest in the country. Now that the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights delivered its reparation judgment last week in favor of […]

Mr. Kuria set out for the Mt. Kenya Summit Challenge at 3 am and later descended the mountain at 3 pm after reaching the Lenana point.

ABSTRACT: Two of Kenya’s few traditional communities, the Ogiek and the Sengwer, have for decades now been agitating, and even presently continue agitating to be allowed to enter and inhabit gazetted state forests (government forests) despite the protected status of these forests. They in their agitation claim an aboriginal “entitlement” to such habitation, which in this paper is referred to as “aboriginal habitation”. They argue that these forests are their traditional ancestral land...

Wangarĩ Maathai grows a movement Kenyan scientist and Nobel Prize winner fought for a better environment for African women. Wangari Maathai in 1992. Credit: Wendy Stone/Getty Images In 1977, more than 40 years before United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York unveiled the Green New Deal, which the  New York Times in 2019 described as “a congressional resolution that lays out a grand plan for tackling climate change”, Wangarĩ Muta Maathai launched the Green Belt ...