NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Maasai community near Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park may be able to keep its traditional homeland after the country’s president said on Twitter that the government would ...

DAR ES SALAAM - Dressed in his traditional red shawl, Edward Loure was watching over a herd of cattle grazing on dew-laden grass when he heard that his efforts to protect land rights had earned him ...

In Mwanza, Tanzania, Nairukoki Leyian-Naisinyai tells me that here, “Corporations come with papers from the government claiming that they have the right to our land.” She points to the large ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s government is preparing to kick Maasai tribesmen off cattle-grazing land near the country’s most famous wildlife park and will instead allow a hunting company from the ...

Narok governor Patrick Ole Ntutu before the Senate Committee on Trade, Industrialization and Tourism at the Parliament buildings ,Nairobi on May 28th,2024. [Elvis Ogina,Standard] At the core of ...

Last week, President Obama came to my country, Tanzania. President Kikwete and our people received him with great pride, but it is unlikely Obama heard anything about our government’s plan to give a ...

“Look, giraffes are walking in front of me. We have hundreds of them in our conservancy. There are zebras, too, see! And elephants,” Nelson Ole Reiyia describes during a phone interview with Mongabay, ...

Across communal Masai-owned ranchland our drive brought us towards the conservancy land, and what an eye opener that was. The absence of cattle and goats had brought out and maintained much better ...

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kenya's opposition leader has raised tensions weeks ahead of elections by criticizing the Maasai community's sale of ancestral land to other ethnic groups in an ...

KAJIADO, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Five years after Naponi Taiko's husband died, his relatives chased her and the couple's two children off their parcel of land in southern Kenya. Back then ...