Maasai women fight for the right to own land

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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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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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 ...
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Dubai royals hunt out Maasai land
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Plans to turn ancestral Maasai land into a reserve for a Dubai royal family appears to be going ahead. The Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania. (AFP). Tanzania has been accused of reneging on its promise to 40?000 Maasai pastoralists by going ...
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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 ...
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Kikwete Vows Maasai Will Remain On Their Land
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Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete has vowed the Maasai will never be evicted from their traditional lands, which activists had claimed were threatened by plans for a hunting reserve. "There has never been, nor will there ever be, any plan by the ...
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Regional authorities here have pleaded with three lawmakers to consider intervening in land conflicts to prevent fatal clashes among members of the Maasai community from erupting once again in their constituencies.

The government of United Republic of Tanzania has never had any plan to evict the Maasai people from their ancestral land

The government of United Republic of Tanzania has never had any plan to evict the Maasai people from their ancestral land as falsely reported by the media in recent days. The information circulated through the media outlets globally was misleading, malicious and meant to tarnish the image of our country and her international standing.

The Minister of Natural Resources...

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Tanzania Is Evicting the Maasai from Sacred Land So Dubai's Royal Family Can ...
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Tanzania plans on evicting 40,000 Maasai from their ancestral land that borders Kenya to create a big game park for the royal family of Dubai. Yep, you read that right. And like us, you might now be shouting, “Wait, what?!” over and over again. Last year ...
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