In the past week, pictures and video clips showing scenes of the injured Maasais in Ngorongoro conservation area in northern Tanzania, bordered by Kenya, circulated online and sparked a wide controversy amongst activists calling for an end to the allegedly forceful eviction of the Maasai by the police from the area. Unfortunately, the flood of...
The committee tasked to collect opinions of the Maasai’s living in Ngorongoro has submitted its draft report to the Prime Minister. Following the hitting debate amongst government leaders and the Maasai’s defiance of the government’s attempt to relocate them to the coastal district of Handeni in the Tanga region, the Prime Minister ordered the Maasai’s...
The police and CCM leaders have interrogated ward councillors and human rights activists living in Ngorongoro for allegedly inciting the Maasai to defy the government’s proposal of voluntarily vacating the area. Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition (THRDC) Deputy Coordinator Mr Leopold Mosha, groups of human rights activists, and ward councillors of Sale ward and Loliondo...
The government’s current proposal is to relocate the Maasai from Ngorongoro to Handeni in the Tanga region. However, the idea has been vehemently rebuked by domestic and international activists, citing violations of human rights despite the government’s emphasis that it has observed human rights on the whole process. The Jamhuri newspaper of March 15, 2022,...
Tanzania’s opposition party, the Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT-Wazalendo), has urged the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism to open talks with the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority and the Maasai pastoralists community living in the park for a fruitful reconciliation over Maasai’s displacement. Since the proposal to vacate the Maasai from the NCAA came...
The eviction of Maasai from their ‘ancestral land’, as referred by many, has sparked an intense debate amongst Tanzanians and decried by many international human rights and environmental organizations. A big part of this debate is across social media platforms, particularly on Twitter, with others initiating online petitions to denounce the eviction of the indigenous...