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Tanzania evicting tens of thousands of Maasai: HRW

Long-standing tensions between the authorities and the nomadic community have sometimes resulted in deadly clashes, after the government launched a programme beginning in 2022 to relocate some 82,000 people from the world-renowned Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Handeni district

Maasai with their cattle in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania. (Photo by Sergio Pitamitz / AFP)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalist @NewVision

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Tanzania is forcibly evicting tens of thousands of Maasai from their ancestral lands, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Wednesday, claiming that government rangers

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