Mau evictions: Ogiek vow to fight for their land rights


[Source: Daily Nation, by Francis Mureithi]

For the last 30 years, members of the Ogiek community has been pursuing a costly dream of resettlement after they were evicted from Mau Forest Complex.

Their dream is yet to come true. For more than three decades, being hunters and gatherers, their source of livelihood in the Mau Forest has gradually been destroyed.

Theirs is a situation of a community whose plight has not been addressed by past and present regimes. But the community has promised to…

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