Return our land now, minority tribe pleads

Baringo, Kenya: Forty years ago, members of the Endorois community were displaced from their ancestral land in Baringo County to pave way for the Lake Bogoria National Game Reserve. For decades, the community wandered from one land to another until 2010 when an international court ordered the Government to compensate them.

The African Court on Human and People’s Rights siting in Gambia ruled that by evicting the Endorois from their ancestral land and excluding them from benefits of development around Lake Bogoria, the Government violated their rights to religion, property, wealth and natural resources according to the African Charter and People’s Rights.