a Maasai woman and county minister, highlighted that it was women who built the manyattas, the traditional homes,for the temporary camp. “We came to a plain field, and now you see full houses.

The court has also omitted a report of satellite imagery showing the burned bomas (traditional Maasai houses) that were located outside the park’s borders. “That the ruling focuses on this ...

The military was building 5,000 cinder-block houses intended for Maasai families. Officials had been dispatched to villages in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to present the government’s offer ...

The report by Human Rights Watch shows that security officers shot and tear-gassed protesting members of the Maasai and destroyed their properties, including livestock and houses. Police detained ...

In a region where early marriages and cattle herding have long defined the future of many girls, one young woman is working to rewrite that script.At just 25, Naomi Koinase (pictured) from Magadini ...

"We have resolved to fight this to the bitter end," says Simon ole Kaparo, a local NGO official in Laikipia, who is one of the young Maasai men leading the campaign for the return of Laikipia. "We ...

But the houses do not reflect the needs or complexities of Maasai families, which traditionally are large, polygamous, multigenerational and multihousehold. The government not only failed to ...

Traditionally, the Maasai were nomadic cattle herders, who trailed through Kenya’s savannas seeking fresh pasture and making temporary manyattas (small mud houses) wherever they went.

Launched in 2012, it was designed to preserve some 4.7 million acres of grasslands to lock in carbon on land communally owned by the Maasai, Borana and other pastoralist groups, which is part of ...

ARUSHA, Tanzania—The Maasai once herded their cattle across the plains of what is now southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. The British colonial government split off a 2 million-acre tract for ...