epaselect KENYA MIGRATION TANZANIA MAASAI EVICTION

Exodus underway as Tanzania forces Maasai people from their ancestral lands

epaselect epa10038369 Tanzanian Maasai women sit next to a manyatta house under construction to accomodate them at a remote village bordering Kenya and Tanzania in Narok, Kenya, 23 June 2022 (issued 28 June 2022). Thousands of Maasai people have been flocking to the border between Tanzania and Kenya in recent weeks, as the Tanzanian government continues its attempts to evict members of the Nilotic ethnic group from their ancestral lands in the northern town of Loliondo. More than 2,000 Maasai crossed the border between the two countries after the outbreak of violence on 10 June, according to Kenyan activists? count. The eviction of the communities in Loliondo in the northern district of Ngorongoro threatens more than 70,000 people, according to the United Nations. EPA/Daniel Irungu

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