Hundreds of people have reportedly been left homeless by the evacuation of local pastoral communities. One young Maasai is said to have been shot and critically injured. It is part of a ...

Kenya: “Maasai Olympics” Replaces Lion Hunting Custom, Sees Women’s Participation | Firstpost Africa In Kenya, Maasai people ...

Artefacts originating from the Maasai people will remain part of a museum's collection following meetings with the group. The Pitt Rivers Museum, in Oxford, has 188 Maasai objects from Kenya and ...

More than 70,000 Indigenous Maasai people are at risk of being evicted from their ancestral grazing lands to make way for a tourism operation after a paramilitary group arrived on 7 June in the Maasai ...

The young people were taking part in a reinterpretation of the “Olamayio” rites undertaken by young Maasai men to prove their skills, identify their leaders and attract romantic partners.

These are where the local Maasai practice rites of passage and old religious beliefs that preserve this place. But as life, religions and the way people see land change in this remote corner of ...

A new report outlines how the Tanzanian government is cutting essential services to force the relocation of Maasai living in a conservation area. A new report released Wednesday by Human Rights ...

“They are not bothered about the livelihoods of the Maasai.” The tribe’s people and their supporters say the relocation is the latest example of a government elbowing out locals ...

Mourners attend the burial of three people who were allegedly shot dead by GSU officers in the Masimba area of Kajiado County. [Peterson Githaiga] A group of Maasai elders and political leaders ...

More than 300 families have been evicted from the Maasai Mau Forest as the Government ... said 333 households — about 3,000 people — have been kicked out of Nkoben. “Since 2013, we have ...

The land is owned by the indigenous Maasai people, who lease it to conservancies for tourism operations, which in turn fund conservation efforts that drive wildlife tourism. However, within months of ...