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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 […]
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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.