Lawyer Kipkoech Ng'etich (left) representing Eastern Mau residents with other lawyers during the hearing of the Eastern Mau case at Environment and Lands Court on October 9, 2023. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]
On May 26, 2017, the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights delivered a long-awaited decision on a case filed by the Ogiek community of the Mau Forest against the Kenyan government.