In direct contradiction to the AfCHPR’s rulings, Kenya’s Environment and Land Court in Nakuru issued a judgment in September ...

The Ogiek and other indigenous tribes remain Kenya’s poorest people. Most Ogiek homes lack electricity and running water. The nominally protected forest they call home continues to shrink amid ...

In a landmark ruling in May 2017, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights affirmed the Indigenous Ogiek’s status as ...

of Kenya’s constitution. Chairman of the elders council Paul Kiptum said, “When planning to restore and protect Mau Forest Complex – remember, the Ogiek indigenous peoples are part of the ecosystem ...

The Ogiek and other indigenous tribes remain Kenya’s poorest people. Most Ogiek homes lack electricity and running water. The nominally protected forest they call home continues to shrink amid ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, January 22, 2014 (ENS) – The Kenyan government has sent Kenya Forest Service guards, with police support, to Embobut Forest in the Cherangany Hills to forcibly and illegally ...

Indigenous Peoples who still primarily spoke their mother tongues were being left behind in the global public health response. Emily Lerosion, a leader in the Samburu tribe in northern Kenya ...

The Republic of Kenya must pay the Indigenous Ogiek people reparations for decades of illegal evictions from their ancestral land in the Mau Forest. That’s according to a ruling from the African ...

Successive post-colonial governments in Kenya have tried to expel the Ogiek ... Ogiek from the forests on the grounds that the indigenous people are destroying “fragile ecosystems.” ...

“[The] judgments … made it clear, inter alia [among other things] that the Ogiek are an indigenous people and are owners of their ancestral lands in the Mau Forest; that the government of ...

One of the most controversial ways to fight climate warming has been the reliance on carbon markets. In essence, such ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) -- As turbines turn on ... Despite the acceptance, there is some concern among the indigenous peoples that the power has been connected to the national grid to the benefit ...