EU to support Maasai centre

The government has vehemently dismissed a report by the UK-based Guardian newspaper that Tanzania was planning to evict 40,000 Maasai pastoralists in Loliondo District and turn their ancestral land into a reserve for the royal family of Dubai to hunt big game.

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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 ...
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In Kenya the 2014 Maasai Olympics have been taking place.

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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Maasai community to benefit from 45m/- well
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THE Tanzanian Goodwill Ambassador, a United States Businessman, Mr Doug Pitt has volunteered to build a well in Masasi area and survey work for the project is planned to start next week. Addressing journalists in a press conference on Friday, the Minister ...
Tanzania sells Masai people's land to Arab royals, who want to build a hunting ...TheSouthAfrican
Tanzania denies plans to evict 40000 Maasai for hunting parkSabahi...

A few years ago, members of the Maasai community rarely discussed politics, but in the countdown to the Sunday General Election, most of them say they cannot wait to see change in Tanzania.

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Tanzania to 40000 Maasai: Get lost!
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In little more than one month, 40,000 Maasai tribe members in northern Tanzania will be forced to leave the lands on which they and their ancestors have herded for centuries. The reason: the Dubai royal family wants a new hunting reserve. One online ...

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