In
this blog post:
Lake
Natron
Ngorongoro
ward
Ex-RC
Gambo
Manongi
in the press
Adjourned
hearing in the East African Court of Justice
Things
are apparently quiet on the ground in Loliondo where the 1,500 km2 Osero of
important grazing land is wanted as a ”buffer zone” not least by OBC that
organizes hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai and that has used this land as
their core hunting area since 1993. The Maasai have been able to fight off
OBC’s intense lobbying, and keep their land, even though there have been
several illegal operations (ordered by representatives for the central government)
with mass human rights crimes. Maybe even more dangerous is the local police
state in which all government officials have participated in harassment,
threats, and illegal arrests of those speaking up against “investors” that want
to manage, or own, Maasai land, and which has worsened considerable the past
years leading to almost complete silence. Though since late February 2019 OBC’s
Tanzanian director finds himself in judicial vacuum in remand prison while
being investigated for mostly unrelated crimes, and OBC are keeping a lower
profile, while instead a basically genocidal zoning proposal for more than the
whole of Ngorongoro district is being pushed by various ugly characters in and
around the Ministry of Natural Resource and Tourism.
