It’s time to
write about the leaked short-term plan for “voluntary” relocation from Ngorongoro
Conservation Area. As known, the medium-term plan is for a cultural genocide,
turning most of NCA and much of surrounding areas into no-go zones for people
and livestock. Everyone has now got the information anyway, so there must have
been more than one leak. Then there has been terrible incitement in Tanzanian
media against the Ngorongoro Maasai – led by Habib Mchange of the Jamvi la
Habari, and picked up by Maulid Kitenge who ran away with it like a pig in heat
(I got that perfect image from a dear friend) but those people are also a distraction
from the real threat
I hope I won’t
have any news from Loliondo to write about other than something good about the
RC backtracking, or a win in the East African Court of Justice. On 1st
February, Loliondo representatives who were in Dodoma to attend the swearing in
of Emmanuel Oleshangai as MP, met with former PM Mizengo Pinda who is in the
highest organs of the CCM ruling party. Pinda reassured them that the
government hadn’t made any decision about the 1,500 km2 and advised
them about meeting people. Why did the RC, the central government’s highest representative
in Arusha region then issue a land alienation threat on 11th January?
I’m glad that there has been so much international solidarity, much more than at
more threatening times, and the reporting has got better, even if some
incorrect information still gets through.
Remember that
Loliondo and NCA are two separate but closely related issues. They are not as
detached as some local people may think but can’t be mixed up as is sometimes done
by outsiders. The Maasai in NCA live under harsh restrictions that don’t exist
in Loliondo. It’s Loliondo that’s my area of expertise.
Much of this
blog post is ongoing events and questions.
But enough is
enough! Stop inciting against and threatening people who already lost massive
land when evicted from Serengeti National Park, and on whose land the wildlife is
found that every opportunist wants to make money off!
In this blog post:
Leaked
short-term eviction plan for NCA
Anti-Maasai hate
campaign in media
Ngorongoro
people explaining and explaining
Journalists
detained after attending community meeting in Nainokanoka
Ngorongoro
Conservation Area and the MLUM review proposal
Ndumbaro
signing 30-year leases with criminals
New MP
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| Photo: Jamvi la Habari (this is supposed to make you upset) |
