Amid Clashes and COVID-19, the Ogiek People Find Hope in the Soil
Photo courtesy of OPDP For Daniel Kobei and other leaders of his indigenous community in Kenya, May 26, 2017 marked the victory of a lifetime. Everything they’d worked tirelessly to achieve finally materialized, as they won the legal rights to their land after years of struggle. Daniel is a member of Kenya’s Ogiek people—a small community of just over 50,000. The organization he founded and leads, the AJWS-supported Ogiek Peoples’ Development Project (OPDP), had just won a major legal victory in the internationally-recognized African Court of Human and People’s Rights. The court’s...
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