Ogieks get new heads to push for land rights


The Standard | by Caroline Chebet

The Ogiek community has declared their former council of elders redundant and selected an interim council to represent them implement a ruling by the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights.

Three years ago the African court gave a landmark ruling, which allowed the community to return to their ancestral land in the Mau Forest after the State evicted them…

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