Don’t touch our land, Maasai elders warn CCM-led govt

Following the great performance of Mwisho wa Lami Secondary School in last year’s KCSE, as a community, we continued celebrating over last weekend.

>People of Zanzibar are happy with their Constitution as it is, a minister in the Government of National Unity (GNU) has said, threatening that any attempt to amend it will not easily go down with Zanzibaris

Residents of Makulu Ward on the road leadig to the University of Dodoma (Udom) can now sleep peacefully after President Jakaya Kikwete yesterday directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) not to relocate them.

Ngoma mpya ya kundi la District 9 wakiwa wamemshirikisha Ms Rizzy. Ngoma inaitwa Don’t Touch Me na imetayarishwa na Hermy B kwa kushirikiana na Pancho Latino.

Loliondo residents in Ngorongoro District yesterday gave the government a four-month ultimatum to find a lasting solution for the conflict pitting them and the ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism.

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Tanzania: Maasai group looks likely to keep land
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Maasai community near Tanzania's Serengeti National Park looks likely to keep their traditional homeland after the country's president said on Twitter that the government would not take their land. President Jakaya Kikwete said ...
Tanzania president vows never to expel MaasaiDaily Mail

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About 130 km from Arusha off the Simanjiro plains, lies Sukuro Village where many residents are Maasai.

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Rich Hunters May Not Take the Maasai's Land After All
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FILE - In this Monday, Aug. A Maasai tribesman dances at a village on the outskirts of the Serengeti, in northern Tanzania. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File). A Maasai community near Tanzania's Serengeti National Park may be able to keep its traditional ...
Tanzania: Maasai group looks likely to keep landEl Paso Inc.
Tanzania president vows Maasai to stayNews24

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Tanzania's Maasai land sale controversy
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Tanzania has been accused of reneging on its promise to 40,000 Maasai pastoralists by going ahead with plans to evict them and turn their ancestral land into a reserve for the royal family of Dubai to hunt big game. Activists celebrated last year when the ...
Rich Gulf Arabs using Tanzania as a playground? Someone opened the gateThe Guardian
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