Wearing his traditional red shuka and holding a spear, Issac Loilet sat outside his Tanzanian mud hut to ponder his fate, as the government continued evicting his tribespeople from their northern ...

In the early hours of Aug. 18, thousands of Indigenous Maasai people blocked the road to one of Tanzania’s biggest tourist attractions, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), in protest against the ...

The proud Maasai tribe in Tanzania are continuing their fight against tourism, what is the fight for their life. Award-winning Thomson Safaris in Tanzania is accused of threatening Maasai land in ...

I spent my first day walking around Loliondo town. The place was a curious mix of people who had moved to the district headquarters and established homes and small farms in the high-altitude plains.

Visiting a real Maasai village gave us a meaningful look into a way of life that is rooted in tradition, community, and deep ...

The presence of wild animals in any learning atmosphere is by all stretches of imagination a rare spectacle, conceivable only in the fantasy world of movies. But, hold your breath! That very scene ...

As the coronavirus pandemic has dried up vital tourist dollars for Kenya's Maasai, one entrepreneur is finding ways to diversify sources of income for a community-run conservancy Coronavirus is ...

“We are tired of moving.” This is what several Maasai men and women residing in the Endulen village in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) told us last July when we asked them about the ...

The East African Court of Justice (EACJ) has ruled in favor of the Tanzanian government after a five-year legal battle between Maasai communities and the state over evictions that took place in 2017.

Banner image: A Maasai man herds goats in East Africa. (Credit: CC photo via WikiMedia Commons) In 2008 and 2009, a severe drought swept through much of Kenya and Tanzania. Nomadic herders, or ...