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Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever

Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever is based on field research, never publicly-seen-before documents, and an in-depth investigation into Tanzania’s land laws. This report is the first to reveal the complicity between Tanzanian government officials and foreign companies as they use conservation laws to dispossess the Maasai, driving them into smaller and smaller areas and creating a stifling map of confinement. The...

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Kuipoteza Serengeti, Ardhi Ya Wamasai Iliyopaswa Kudumu Milele

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Entrance to a new boma built by the displaced Maasai. Credit: The Oakland Institute

This Human Rights Day, Stand Up for the Rights of the Maasai in Tanzania

Monday, December 10, 2018 Elizabeth Fraser

Basic rights – to life, security, food and housing, freedom from arbitrary arrest, and more – are also being systematically denied to the indigenous Maasai pastoralists in the Loliondo and Ngorongoro regions of northern Tanzania, and the situation is critical.

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Maasai Villagers Win a Major Victory in the East African Court of Justice in Case Against Tanzanian Government

Kuipoteza Serengeti, Ardhi Ya Wamasai Iliyopaswa Kudumu Milele

Repression Intensifies against Maasai Villagers in Tanzania as They Seek Justice Against Decades of Human Rights Abuses at the East African Court of Justice

Maasai Villagers Face Intimidation & Arrests as They Take the Tanzanian Government to Court for Burning of Homes & Human Rights Abuses in 2017

An Open Letter to the Tanzanian Government with Regard to its Response to the Oakland Institute’s Report, Losing the Serengeti

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The Maasai Score a Legal Victory in their Struggle to Protect their Way of Life

Amandla!

Les Guerriers Massaï : une Guerre Pour la Préservation

Maze Magazine

Les « Masai » Chassés de Leur Terre

Les Echos

Maasai Evicted from their Lands to Make Space for Trophy Tourism in the Serengeti

LifeGate

Tanzanie: les Masaï expulsés de leurs terres au nom du tourisme

RFI

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Documentation and Contracts

Tanzania Government Documents

Tanzania Legal Discovery Documents

Tanzania Lawsuit - Legal Documents