Ogiek People Development Program News Today

SASIMWANI, Kenya — On a cold November afternoon, Esther Norparua and two of her daughters sat on the ground outside her homestead facing the forest. Dark clouds gathered, but the compound’s two houses would offer little shelter from the coming rain: several days earlier, police had descended on Ogiek villages in this part of Kenya’s […]

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Human rights groups have accused the Kenyan government of selling off acres of forest land to logging companies and tea farmers who have felled thousands of trees.

Three leading human rights organizations have released a statement denouncing Kenya’s illegal evictions of the Ogiek people.

The Ogiek have been accused of encroachment and deforestation in a place they consider home by Kenyan authorities.

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

On Nov. 2, the Kenyan government began demolishing houses and destroying property belonging to Indigenous Ogiek living in the Mau Forest. The Ogiek had won a landmark case in 2017 recognizing their rights to their ancestral land in the forest. The Kenya Forest Service said this did not extend to farming and building homes in […]

Human rights groups demand Kenyan government halt forced evictions of Ogiek community from Mau forest

Kenyan authorities are illegally evicting up to 700 Ogiek people from their homes in the name of conservation.

Environmental changes impacting beehives compound the disconnection and anxiety the Ogiek community in Kenya has experienced.