A Human Rights Watch report says Tanzania is forcibly evicting tens of thousands of Maasai from their ancestral lands, claiming that government rangers beat some members of the community with impunity.
The human rights NGO has reported this Wednesday that long-standing tensions between the authorities and the nomadic Maasai 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 – roughly 600 kilometres away – by 2027.
