Rungwe — Ilolo villagers in Kiwira Ward in Rungwe District, Mbeya Region, have appealed to President John Magufuli to intervene to resolve a 25-year-old land crisis pitting them against the Moravian Church.
The villagers accused the church of grabbing their farm land. "The church has kicked us out of our ancestral land and given it to an investor," lamented Mzee John Mwakanyamale, 107, who was speaking through an interpreter as he doesn't know Kiswahili well.
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