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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 […]
Leaders of the Ogiek community say armed forest rangers are "pulling down houses with axes and hammers".
Leaders of the Ogiek community say armed forest rangers are "pulling down houses with axes and hammers".
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 […]