Rights group mounts campaign for indigenous people to remain in Mau

Milka Moraa, who was evicted from the Sierra Leone area in Narok South, which is part of the Mau Forest, rests with her children at a makeshift camp in Kuresoi South. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Indigenous communities that have been living in the Mau Forest should not be evicted, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has said.

Speaking in Nairobi during the Indigenous Women Regional Conference yesterday, KNCHR commissioner George Morara said it was necessary to evict only communities that migrated and settled in the forest.