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Maasai anger as they lose land to Arab hunters

This sign in Kiswahili at the meeting in Olorien village on 6 April 2013 says: "We will fight for our land until the end." [Photo:BBC]

 

In a remote corner of northern Tanzania, Boeing 747 planes land on a private airstrip, trucks with United Arab Emirates (UAE) number plates drive across the plains, and anyone with a cell phone receives an unlikely text message:

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