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Kenya: Ogiek Want Govt to Follow Through With Court Ruling
Nation, 28 May 2017
Leaders of the Ogiek have asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to respect a continental court judgment that indicted the government for driving the indigenous community out of the Mau… Read more »
Indigenous Group Ogiek Wants Kenyan Govt to Honour Court Ruling
After an eight-year legal battle, the Arusha-based African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights ruled that the Kenyan government had violated the rights and freedoms of the Ogiek by driving them out of their ancestral lands.
Members of the Ogiek community listen to a ruling by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Arusha on May 26, 2017.
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Kenya: Kenyan Govt Ordered to Compensate Ogieks
East African, 27 May 2017
Kenya will in three months know how much it has to pay the Ogiek community for continuously evicting them from the Mau Forest in the Rift Valley. Read more »
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Kenya: African Court Rules Kenya Violates Forest People's Land Rights
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 26 May 2017
Kenya has violated the forest-dwelling Ogiek people's rights to land, religion, culture, development and non-discrimination, the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights ruled on… Read more »
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Kenya: Pangas in Hand, Kenya's Indigenous Fire Scouts Take On Forest Losses
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 26 May 2017
Given the right incentives, neighbours of threatened forests decide working hard to protect the land is to their own advantage Read more »
