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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 […]
About 30,000 members of the community live in the Mau Forest Complex.
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 […]
New satellite data analysis reveals that Mau Forest in Kenya, the largest montane forest in East Africa, is continuing to lose tree cover, likely due to illegal logging and agricultural expansion, despite efforts at protection. The Mau Forest is vital as the country’s biggest water catchment area, covering some 2,700 square kilometers (1,042 square miles) […]
Wednesday, August 18, 2021 – As tributes continue to pour in following the untimely death of Jubilee Nominated Senator Victor Prengei, who died on Monday night through a grisly road accident, details have emerged on how his wife escaped the fatal crash at Kaptembwa. According to family sources, Catherine Prengei had just alighted from the vehicle…