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Kenya: Ogiek hunted by police and paramilitary units
January 2008
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Twenty houses belonging to Ogiek families in the Mau Forest in Kenya have been burned to the ground, allegedly under potection from security personnel. The Ogiek are being hunted as part of a brutal manhunt to find the culprit of the death of a police officer who was shot in his head with an arrow. There is no evidence that any Ogiek has been involved in the death of the police officer.
 Read Ogiek.org and ecoterra's press release (pdf) |
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Mau Forest, Kenya.
Photo: Marianne Wiben Jensen |
Kenya: Ogiek people killed like rabbits
February 2008
Realizing that the Ogiek had fled the area around Chepyuk and took refuge at Teldet and Chepkitale, the Sabaot Land Defense Force (SLDF), Kenya's most dangerous and notorious, at least 1000 men strong armed militia, has now taken advantage of the lawlessness and the commitments of the police elsewhere to hunt and kill the Ogiek like rabbits.
 Read the story here or at www.ogiek.org |
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 Photo: Jens Dahl |
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Congo: Arrest over abduction of indigenous family's child
March 2008
The High Court in southwestern Congo has indicted a member of an influential family on charges that he was responsible for the forced disappearance 19 years ago of a child from a family of indigenous people.
Read more (web link in English)
Read the press release in French (Inculpation d'un trafiquant d'enfant autochtone)
Read more in French (Déclaration de l'ADPPA suite à l'inculpation d'un trafiquant d'un enfant autochtone)
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Logging company CIB in Congo Brazzaville has obtained FSC certification of the second of its forest concessions
May 2008
Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB), a subsidiary of the Danish DLH group, announced May 26 that its Pokola Forest Management Unit (FMU) has achieved FSC certification. Pokola FMU becomes the 2nd of CIB’s four forest areas to reach this significant achievement after CIB’s Kabo FMU achieved FSC certification in May 2006.
Read the press release (pdf)
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Africa: Shadow reports about Tanzania and The Democratic Republic of Congo
May 2008
When states present their periodic reports to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), NGOs have the opportunity to submit supplementary information to the Commission in the form of shadow reports.
Find the reports here
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Kenya: The Ogiek: forgotten victims of Kenya's election violence
June 2008
The Ogiek – Kenya’s largest forest-dwelling hunter-gatherer community – were badly affected by the violence which engulfed Kenya earlier this year.
Read more on Minority Rights Group's web site
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Eviction of pastoralists from Usangu Plains, Tanzania
June 2008
In the period from May 2006 to May 2007 large numbers of Sukuma agro-pastoralists and IlParakuiyo, Taturu and Barabaig pastoralists and their livestock have been evicted from the Usangu Plains in Mbarali district, Mbeya region. It is estimated that more than 400 families and 300.000 livestock have been moved, and that a high number of livestock have died or been lost in the process.
Read the memo from IWGIA (pdf)
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