The Maasai Tribe in Tanzania Could Lose Its Home

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The Maasai Tribe in Tanzania Could Lose Its Home
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The Tanzanian government has been jerking around the people of the Maasai tribe with threats and intimations that it will take away their land. After much uncertainty, the latest news on this contested subject should come as a relief. An online petition started ...
TANZANIA DENIES PLANS TO EVICT 40000 MAASAI FOR HUNTING PARKNFL News and Rumors
Tanzania denies plan to evict Masai tribes to set up hunting park for UAE...

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Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Feb

Museveni to score at home and lose international support

Two decisions made in quick succession of one another create a toxic mix that will likely domestically bolster President Museveni but sour his relations internationally.

 

10 years ago

Daily News &Amp; Analysis

21 Nov

Tanzania selling off land belonging to Masai tribe to Dubai royal family to use it ...

Daily News & Analysis
Tanzania selling off land belonging to Masai tribe to Dubai royal family to use it ...
Daily News & Analysis
The Tanzania government has sold a large tract of land- about 1500 square kilometres to the Dubai royal family with the intention of using it as a game-hunting resort. This development shall render at least 40000 of the ancient Masai tribe who lived and ...
Tanzania sells Masai people's land to Arab royals, who want to build a hunting ...TheSouthAfrican
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10 years ago

World Magazine

28 Nov

Tanzania to 40000 Maasai: Get lost!

World Magazine
Tanzania to 40000 Maasai: Get lost!
World Magazine
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 ...

 

10 years ago

STLtoday.Com

24 Nov

Tanzania: Maasai group looks likely to keep land

Houston Chronicle
Tanzania: Maasai group looks likely to keep land
STLtoday.com
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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10 years ago

The Hindu

18 Nov

Tanzania's Maasai land sale controversy

The Guardian
Tanzania's Maasai land sale controversy
The Hindu
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
Tanzania evicting 40000 people from homeland to make room for Dubai royal ...Salon
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10 years ago

DAWN.Com

19 Nov

Tanzania's Maasai face eviction threat

DAWN.com
Tanzania's Maasai face eviction threat
DAWN.com
DAR SALAAM: Tanzania will evict thousands of members of the Maasai community from their traditional lands if it goes ahead with plans to create a hunting park, campaigners claimed on Tuesday. Global activist group Avaaz alleged Tanzania had ambitions ...
Tanzania Is Uprooting 40000 People For the Most Despicable ReasonMic
Tanzania Is Evicting the Maasai So Dubai's Royal Family Can Hunt Elephants ...RYOT
Tanzania threat to evict 40 000 for...

 

10 years ago

GlobalPost

24 Nov

Tanzania president vows never to expel Maasai

GlobalPost
Tanzania president vows never to expel Maasai
GlobalPost
Tanzania's president has vowed never to evict the Maasai people from their traditional lands, which activists claimed were threatened by plans for a hunting reserve for the wealthy. "There has never been, nor will there ever be any plan by the government of ...
Tanzania denies plans to evict 40000 so Dubai royals can huntTimes LIVE
Maasai Community to Benefit From Sh45 Million WellAllAfrica.com
Tanzania's Maasai prefer death to...

 

10 years ago

Aljazeera.Com

23 Nov

Tanzania's Maasai prefer death to eviction

Aljazeera.com
Tanzania's Maasai prefer death to eviction
Aljazeera.com
It's a familiar story, starring African land and outsized corporate appetites. It begins in 1992, when the Tanzanian government licensed Ortelo Business Corporation (OBC) - owned by a senior official of the United Arab Emirates government - to organise ...
Maasai to Lose Ancestral Land to Trophy Hunting ParkCare2.com

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10 years ago

News24

24 Nov

Tanzania president vows Maasai to stay

News24
Tanzania president vows Maasai to stay
News24
Dar es Salaam - Tanzania's president has vowed never to evict the Maasai people from their traditional lands, which activists claimed were threatened by plans for a hunting reserve for the wealthy. "There has never been, nor will there ever be any plan by the ...
Tanzania: Maasai group looks likely to keep landseattlepi.com

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