Protests Against Violence in Endulen, the New DED Added to the Loliondo Police State, and then Samia again Showed off her Dangerous Ignorance about Ngorongoro

 

Rest in peace dad, Alf Nordlund.

And, rest in peace MP and deputy minister, Willliam Olenasha.

 

I’m unfocused and am again posting far, far too late about important issues. I was writing about the new DED’s contribution to the Loliondo police state, but also needed to return to the president’s “Royal Tour”. Then protests erupted in Endulen against abuse and violence by the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority.

 

On 27^th September the Ngorongoro MP and Deputy Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (Investment) William Tate Olenasha passed away far too young at 49. I will write about him later, or maybe I won’t. He was of invaluable help for this blog up until 13^th August 2017. I would like to extend my condolences to William’s family and friends.

 

Then we suffered a shocking, but not unexpected, family tragedy.

 

And then President Samia once again made an ignorant and threatening statement about Ngorongoro.

 

This blog post is about two, or more, different land threats in Loliondo and NCA, but that are united by the threat of a genocidal Multiple Land Use Model review proposal (in case new readers are confused).

 

In this blog post:

More about The Royal Tour

Petition

Protests against ranger violence in Endulen

A most unsuitable district executive director

The Germans again

Samia again showing off her dangerous ignorance

By-election?

Two Press Statements in One Day by Village Chairs from Loliondo/Sale and NCA – and Manongi Openly Declares War on Ngorongoro Pastoralists

 

On Friday 27^th August 2021, two statements about land threats in Ngorongoro district were issued by village chairpersons – and then there was a long and frustrating time of waiting before anything was broadcast. One statement was about Ngorongoro Division (Ngorongoro Conservation Area, NCA), which was one of many since the genocidal Multiple Land Use Model review proposal was revealed by chief conservator Freddy Manongi in September 2019. It’s significant that the other statement was issued by village chairmen and other representatives from Loliondo and Sale. Other than two statements by all ward councillors in the district (in October 2019 and June 2021) basically nothing has been heard from Loliondo leaders and activists since those who had not already been silenced in one way or other were silenced by the terror of 2018 when soldiers from the Tanzania People’s Defence Force – without any kind of official order, unlike the illegal mass arson operations in 2009 and 2017 that were ordered by the DC – were in some way contracted to commit violent crime, arson included, for OBC that organize hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai.  

 

This double press conference follows a most illogical, inhumane and very, very illegal order, or ultimatum – which I wrote about in the latest blog post - from Minister Ndumbaro to hunting firms telling them to remove livestock from their hunting blocks, many of which, like Loliondo, are on village land, and this was one of the reasons for the Loliondo statement. How can Ndumbaro order the hunters to commit a crime that they’re already far too inclined to commit and which OBC has for a long time lobbied for? This has included the funding of a rejected draft district land use plan that proposed turning their 1,500 km2 core hunting area into a protected area, and this lobbying has led to several major illegal invasions of village land, human rights crimes, and to a local police state at the service of OBC (and the American Thomson Safaris) that finally silenced almost everyone.

 

Then there hasn’t been any further explanation from Ndambaro and nobody, other than some social media posts and my blog post, spoke up demanding accountability and retraction of the statement. Though I was told that the councillors wrote a statement early on protesting Ndumbaro’s order, but that they lacked funds for a press conference. The village chairpersons were assisted by NGO’s (PINGOs Forum and others) to hold their press conference on 27^th August. Television coverage was expected for the weekend, but didn’t appear, and then in a very brief form, until a week later.

 

Then a video of Manongi and deputy minister Masanja openly declaring war on the Ngorongoro pastoralists was uploaded to the Youtube account of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism.

 

President Samia is soon to visit Ngorongoro on her “Royal Tour”, maybe even tomorrow (Monday).

Update: Samia is in Ngorongoro. 

Update Tuesday 7th September: Yesterday several special seats councillors, NGO-people, and activists were arrested until dark to prevent them from reaching Samia on her Royal Tour They are suspected of being in possession of placards and will have to present themselves at the police on Friday. I'm searching for more details. 

In this blog post:

The Loliondo/Sale statement

Ngorongoro Conservation Area Statement

Open declaration of war by Deputy Minister and Chief Conservator against Ngorongoro pastoralists

Samia’s Royal Tour

 

Ndumbaro Makes a Criminally Clueless and Dangerous Statement Urging Hunting Investors to Commit More Crime Against Rural People

 

Poleni sana wanangoile …

 

On 5th August, the Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Damas Ndumbaro, made a most inflammatory statement totally ignoring rule of law, human rights, land rights and common sense.

In this blog post:

Ndumbaro’s Criminally Clueless and Dangerous Statement

Summary about OBC and the Osero in Loliondo

 

First, please sign this petition by Rainforest Rescue and the Oakland Institute against eviction in Ngorongoro.

Guest blogger Tubulu Nebasi: The Failure of the Manongi Regime of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority and the Maasai as Natural Conservationists

 

By Tubulu Lerug Sokoine Nebasi (Diwani Nje ya Halmashauri/Councillor outside the District Council).

 

(Tubulu is the first guest blogger here at View from the Termite Mound, but any serious voice for Ngorongoro land rights – not least including Loliondo, if anyone would be brave enough - is more than welcome.

/Susanna)

 

Ngorongoro, particularly the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, is legally known to be a Multiple Land Use Area and it was by early 1959 when the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority Act (formerly Ordinance) No.14 of 1959 was initiated and defined the three main functions of the Area: Conservation, Tourism and Development of Indigenous People. The Maasai people are known to be the owners of the land and Ngorongoro is the Land of Maasai people, followed by the agreement of the Maasai to vacate the Western Serengeti on 13^th, 14^th March and 20^th April 1958 by the Laigwanak (elders) of Ngorongoro and Loliondo division of the Maasai District (Munge Ole Keyamba, Ole Pose, Olong'oyu and others agreed on behalf of all Maasai).

 

Today Ngorongoro is not better than before, the life of the indigenous people is not better, employment of Maasai people to the NCAA is not better, Multiple Land Use is not better, Ngorongoro Pastoralist Council, NPC, is not better, only militarism thrives.

A Brief Reminder of Rashid Mfaume Taka's Crimes, a Statement by Ngorongoro Councillors, and Manongi’s War against the Maasai Continues

 

Ngorongoro has a new DC after the human rights criminal and perjurer Rashid Mfaume Taka has been retired. I must remind of the crimes committed by the old DC, but know very little about the new one. On 27^thJune, the Ngorongoro councillors issued a statement about the land conflicts in the district. This is an improvement that I must write about. As feared when I was writing the latest blog post, at least 35 MPs visited Ngorongoro. As usual, this post could have been published several days ago.

 

In this blog post:

A reminder of the crimes committed by former DC Rashid Mfaume Taka

Statement by the councillors of Ngorongoro District Council about land conflict in the divisions of Sale, Ngorongoro, and Loliondo

Tourism by parliamentarians, and soldiers

 

While Ndumbaro and the MNRT Lull Ngorongoro Leaders to Sleep, Manongi Prepares Full War on the Maasai

 

There have been some developments since the latest blog post. Sadly, the silence in Loliondo continues and the only thing anyone will say is that OBC are busy repairing roads, and back in business, preparing for a visit by Sheikh Mohammed. It may also be of interest that Ndumbaro on 29^th May met with the UAE ambassador to Tanzania. Then Loliondo was mentioned in Ndumbaro’s budget speech as if belonging to NCAA. The delays in the EACJ case are most worrying and some people must become more active …

Ngorongoro Conservation Area, on the other hand, has been in the news. First as meetings, delegations, and Ngorongoro politicians expressing their gratitude to Minister Ndumbaro for talking to them. Then Manongi arranged a NCAA propaganda spectacle at parliament grounds in Dodoma.

In this blog post:

The eviction notices that were withdrawn

Insistence on eviction notices

Petition

Delegation to Dodoma

Abrupt NCAA HQ relocation

Delegation arranged by the MP

CCM meeting in Endulen

Manongi on parliament grounds

Loliondo in Ndumbaro’s budget speech

Unfair ruling in the case against victims of election violence

New report by the Oakland Institute

Ngorongoro and the genocidal MLUM review proposal

After the President’s Speech Mentioning Ngorongoro Strange Eviction Notices were Issued and then Withdrawn

 

After the terror - that since 2016 (worsened in 2018) had made the defenders of land and pastoralists almost useless - finally seemed to have started to subside, there have been some setbacks caused by newcomers (not least, as mentioned in the latest blog post, the new president) repeating the NCAA’s and MNRT’s anti-Ngorongoro rhetoric. Then, Minister Ndumbaro visited Ngorongoro, avoided meeting local representatives that had been waiting since early morning, and almost 150 families got illegal “eviction notices” or orders to demolish their houses. Fortunately, these were withdrawn after protests. At last, a small victory.

 

Meanwhile in Loliondo, OBC are busy, and nobody is saying anything at all.

 

In this blog post:

NCAA/MNRT talk in the president’s speech and elsewhere

Response by Joseph Oleshangay and others

Ndumbaro’s visit to Ngorongoro, illegal eviction notices, and the re-emergence of the MP

Press statement in Arusha

Eviction notices withdrawn

State of the nation speech

Ngorongoro and the MLUM review proposal

 

A Reminder about Loliondo

Maasai in Loliondo have for years been at risk of losing 1,500 km2 of important grazing land, suffered all kinds of abuse, including illegal mass arson operations, and a local police state. I’ve tried to make this article as brief as possible, too much have been left out, but there’s just too much to say – even when some is unknown.

Initially the plan was to publish this blog post somewhere else, but I’ll write another kind of article for that purpose.

 

While this post has kept being delayed hopes have first been raised with the change at the highest level of government, and then plummeted on 6^th April when President Samia mentioned Ngorongoro in a speech showing that she’d swallowed the lies by the MNRT hook, line and sinker. This can still be salvaged, and I hope to very soon be able to write a blog post about the responses that will set record straight for her (more about this at the end of the blog post). Meanwhile, read what Ngorongoro youths in February had to say about the plans by the MNRT.

In this blog post:

Rest in peace Emmanuel Saringe ole Naronyo

Loliondogate to today

Invasion of village land and mass arson of 2009

The draft District Land Use Plan

Kagasheki’s attempt at imposing OBC’s land use plan

OBC’s journalist

Worsened divide and rule with Nyalandu

Proxy wars for OBC

My illegal arrest

Illegal arrests to silence everyone

Gambo’s committee

Invasion of village land and illegal mass arson operation of 2017

Kigwangalla became a hero and then U-turned

Intimidation drive to derail the case in the EACJ, unbelievable perjury, and interim orders that were soon violated

The bizarre case of mistaken identity

JWTZ soldiers working for OBC committed human rights crimes

The unexpected arrest of OBC’s director

JWTZ soldiers killing Yohana "Babuche" Saidea in Wasso town

A genocidal NCA Multiple Land Use Model review proposal includes the land wanted by OBC

Current state and the speech of nightmares

Press Conference by Ngorongoro Youths in Dar es Salaam

In this blog post:

Press conference

The threat of the MLUM review proposal

 

After the press conference in Arusha on 21^st January, held by ward councillors and customary leaders from Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), Ngorongoro youths in Dar es Salaam – all of them university students except one who’s a lawyer - followed up with their own press conference on 8^th February. They continued the work to set the record straight about bad policy in NCA including serious human rights issues, the current atrocious management of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) under chief conservator Freddy Manongi, misleading information from the NCAA and in the press (like Manongi’s workshop for journalists in late December, in which he drummed up urgency about population growth and was quoted uncritically in the press, which prompted the first press conference), and threatening proposals. Already the following day, Global tv and E Habari reported about the youths’ press conference, but further news coverage is so far nowhere to be seen.

Ngorongoro councillors and customary leaders send a message once again to President Magufuli

On 21^st January 2021 in Arusha, a delegation representing ward councillors and customary leaders from Ngorongoro District (specifically from Ngorongoro division/Ngorongoro Conservation Area), on behalf of the Ngorongoro residents, met the press and read a statement prepared in Endulen on the 16^th January. The statement urges President Magufuli to disregard recent reports from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism (MNRT) about Ngorongoro, particularly the Multiple Land Use Model (MLUM) review report.  The councillors and customary leaders insist that these reports were compiled and written without the informed or full involvement of communities, but rather with the aim of evicting these communities from their land. They reminded the president that the multiple land use model that makes the area unique has been effective because of the traditional way of life of the indigenous pastoralist community and their support for the model. They also reminded him that the pastoralist communities in NCA are not land invaders, but rather they are the lawful residents of legally registered villages, with their land and legal rights recognised, amongst others in the NCA Ordinance of 1959. 

 

The councillors and customary leaders finish the statement with emphasis on the fact that the people of Ngorongoro do not agree with the process adopted by the MLUM team or the General Management Plan (GMP) team, and that they also reject the results of these studies, including the proposals. They therefore ask the president not to agree to proposals that do not have the consent or blessings of local people. They are ready to seek solutions, but the participation should be genuine and not hateful, fraudulent or with pressure from the NCAA.

“Therefore, we ward councillors and customary leaders, on behalf of the people of Ngorongoro Conservation Area, with great humility ask the president to keep an eye on this area so that if possible, he will change the leadership of the NCAA and completely expose the whole institution because it has failed to manage the area, and is the source of conflicts and deteriorating relations between communities and conservationists.”

 

The delegation from Ngorongoro. 

Last Reports of the Year about Injustice and Land Threats in Loliondo and Ngorongoro

When few hours, minutes in Tanzania, remain of this year 2020, the only thing I can say is, at least Ref No. 10 of 2017, Ololosokwan Village Council & 3 Others (Kirtalo, Oloirien and Arash) vs the Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania continues in the East African Court of Justice …

 

In this blog post:

The horror of the state of things

NCAA workshop to incite journalists against the Maasai of Ngorongoro

Criminal rangers again seizing cattle on village land in Arash

A reminder of the case in the East African Court of Justice

Vote rigging and murder in Ngorongoro

On Election Day, in Ngorongoro ward of Ngorongoro district, police and Ngorongoro Conservation Area rangers opened fire shooting innocent, unarmed voters who were standing up for democracy, trying to stop election fraud. 23-year old Salula Ngorisiolo was killed. Then the injured victims were arrested, and so was the CHADEMA ward councillor candidate, and the former CCM councillor (who was on the side of justice), and they were locked up illegally for a week and are now facing charges, while the murderers and vote riggers walk free.

 

In this blog post:

Stolen elections in Tanzania

Murder and illegal arrests in Ngorongoro

 

This blog is about “investors” that threaten land rights in Loliondo and the local police state at their service, a police state that was terrifying long before the whole of Tanzania turned into something similar, and it’s about the current genocidal Multiple Land Use Model review proposal. Though this particular post is about a not entirely unrelated heinous crime. There are still some information gaps, but I can’t wait longer to publish this.

Delayed Blog Post About a Lost PR Opportunity for PM Majaliwa in Ngorongoro

 

On Friday 16^th October, the old enemy of Loliondo and Ngorongoro, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa, visited Wasso as part of the election campaign. On the stage, with incumbent Ngorongoro MP William Olenasha and CCM’s councillor candidate for Orgosorok ward, Mohammed “Marekani” Bayo who also is OBC’s community liaison (and who received much praise from the MP), Majaliwa, unlike what would have been expected, did not declare that the horrible proposal by the Multiple Land Use Model review team had been stopped.

In this blog post:

The MLUM review proposal

Reactions to the MLUM review proposal

Majaliwa/Olenasha/Marekani horror show in Wasso

Now

If you still haven’t, please read my long blog post about the horrors of the past five years. http://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2020/10/five-years-of-disappointment-and-terror.html

Five Years of Disappointment and Terror - Not Only in Loliondo

Five years of the fifth phase government in Tanzania are nearing their end. I should write a summary of what has happened concerning the land threats in Loliondo and Ngorongoro district as a whole. This isn’t easy. Even with more fearful silence than ever, much has happened, and apparently insignificant events turn out significant with hindsight. The summary is too long, but I hope it will be read anyway and that those reading it will try to do something to stop the police state and the land alienation plans.

Sadly, I must warn anyone looking for something inspirational about brave indigenous resistance. Don’t read this blog post. These ugly five years have been filled with fearfulness, corruption, and treason. Though maybe, maybe a change is on the way.

In the future I will post an improved version, including 1992–2015. If anything in this blog post needs to be corrected or updated, I will mark the edit in a visible way, and I may continue adding links after publishing.

In this long blog post:

Brief introduction to what had happened before 2015

OBC and the Osero

Thomson Safaris

NCA

2015 with further divide and rule, intimidation, and elections

Divide and rule continued

Jerry Muro doing anti-Loliondo propaganda

Brutal evictions and confusion

Anti-Kenyan operation

Unbelievable treason        

DC Mgandilwa and his dangerous follies

DC/OBC/Oloipiri against Kirtalo

Protest in Sukenya

Illegally arrested

Never-ending lies about giraffes

2015 elections

 

2016 when everything got so much worse

Manyerere Jackton continued and increased his old anti-Loliondo incitement in the Jamhuri

Charity as a weapon again

Multiple illegal arrests with the aim to silence everyone

Further incitement and OBC’s report

Majaliwa “solving the conflict” via Gambo’s committee

 

2017 with massive human rights crimes

Drought and further weakened leaders while the RC’s committee continued its work

What’s a GCA 2009?

Maghembe and his co-opted committee

Spontaneous protests

Meanwhile grazing areas were lost in Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Proposal by the RC’s committee and unused parliament seat

Brutal, illegal, and unexpected invasion of village land and silent MP

Kigwangalla becomes a hero and then makes an ugly U-turn

Majaliwa’s decision

 

2018 with silence and extreme brutality committed by soldiers

Kigwangalla’s U-turn

Military camp

Daylight corruption when OBC again brought gifts to the MNRT

Secret meeting for a “friendlier” version of Majaliwa’s decision

Oakland report and Kigwangalla goes totally insane

Exterminating the opposition

Kigwangalla’s budget

Intimidation drive to derail the case in the EACJ

Soldiers attacking herders

The bizarre case of mistaken identity

The East African Court of Justice finally issued interim measures

Soldier brutality, burning bomas in violation of court orders

 

2019 with death, a faint glimmer of hope, and then a genocidal proposal

More illegal arrests ordered by DC Rashid Mfaume Taka

The RC condemning the burning of bomas in a strange and vague way

The president’s surprising statement

Perjury in the EACJ

OBC’s Mollel gets caught by PCCB and is locked up to rot in remand prison while all his accomplices remain untouched

Science magazine article deeply embedded with human rights criminals

JWTZ soldiers killing Babuche in Wasso town

Threats in the press

The genocidal proposal

Reports about the strangest study tour to OBC’s camp

 

2020 that will hopefully not just be a sad, long funeral for democracy

Mwananchi interview with Kigwangalla

Renewed negotiations with those who keep insisting on the genocidal proposal

MOU about the Pastoral Council

Visit to Kigwangalla and feedback meeting

Councillor reports about abuse and sabotage committed by NCA rangers and then the criminal DC receives much praise for intervening

Information about NCAA funds at councillors’ meeting

Kigwangalla threatens Lake Natron

Statement from Ngorongoro ward

Elections …

 

Ngorongoro Pastoralists Attacked from all Sides – Fighting Back Here and There, and Hopefully Soon Everywhere

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.

Scattered, Scarce, and Delayed Reports While Waiting for Action against the Genocidal MLUM Proposal in Ngorongoro

I must write about recent developments in Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) even though the little information I have got is now old. This blog has for a decade dealt with “investors” threatening land rights in Loliondo. There’s almost total silence about what’s happening in Loliondo, and the current most acute threat against the 1,500 km2 Osero is that its annexation to NCA is included in the report that proposes such extensive “no-go zones” in NCA and beyond that it would mean the end of all Maasai life in Ngorongoro District, and these proposals keep being insisted upon by the Ngorongoro chief conservator Manongi, and an ugly assortment of individuals inside and around the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, while far too timid local leaders keep asking for the report to be overhauled, which keeps being granted, and is then ignored. The latest blog post somewhat explained the most recent promises by Minister Kigwangalla. Since then, the councillor of Endulen has reported about how this is being sabotaged, and surprisingly about how the criminal DC has been supportive of the Maasai (or doing damage control for the government). I can’t explain everything in this post, but there’s a decade of posts, and the latest ones have been about the MLUM report. I hope and expect to soon be able to write about some more serious action against the brutal proposal. Meanwhile I will post this.

In this blog post:

A brief reminder about the Osero

Articles

Councillor reports about abuse and sabotage committed by NCA rangers

Pastoralists into New Round of Negotiations with those who Want to Wipe them off the Map of Ngorongoro

This blog has been too silent. I’m very sad and tired, and in Loliondo, and Ngorongoro district as a whole, people have been busy discussing Covid-19, or “politics” (possible candidates, and I’m not innocent in this regard, even if my main interest is in who will best defend the land), while the biggest threat ever looms over everyone’s head – the insane Multiple Land Use Model report of last year. This threat has again been spoken about, and there’s a new attempt to, from the inside, stop planned atrocities.

In this blog post:

The genocidal report

Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Some slow and timid reaction                                              

MOU about the Pastoral Council

Open letter to the president

Press statement

Visit to Kigwangalla and feedback meeting

Human Rights Criminals Visited a Charitable Project in the Form of a Military Camp in Loliondo

In this blog post:

The visit to the JWTZ camp

Tanzania People’s Defense Force JWTZ

Manongi, king of the NCA

DC Rashid Mfaume Taka – human rights criminal and perjurer

Summary of Osero developments of the past decades

It’s been revealed that the military camp in Loliondo is being made permanent, and with funding from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority. I should have written about this immediately when I heard about it on 2^nd March, but I’m too sad, tired and stressed, and didn’t start writing until the weekend, and after that I needed to know what some people had to say about the draft ... Then, this past week, RC Gambo toured Ngorongoro District and had a visit to the military camp in his schedule, so I waited for another week, totally in vain, since “nobody” has heard anything about Gambo at the JWTZ camp. Due to an emergency, the RC had to return early to Arusha, and may therefore not even have visited the soldiers. I may update this blog post, and now it surprisingly seems like I may be getting information about another issue for next blog post.

Update 16th March: RC Gambo was at the military camp, “placing the foundation stone”.  Council Chairman Siloma had some stomach churning words of praise for the soldiers, but I’m too tired to analyze that at the moment.

New or by Now Old Year, Old Silence, and the Same Unanswered Questions about Loliondo

Three months have passed since the latest blog post, which is unacceptable and can only be explained with that everyone is saying that there isn’t anything happening (very improbable) and that I (thousands of kilometres away) know more than they do. This does however not excuse my silence when there are so many old truths to keep reminding of, and unanswered questions to keep asking.  However madly disappointed I am with “some” people in Loliondo, and however exhausted I am by unrelated unsolvable problems, I must never again stay quiet for this long.

For a brief reminder of what this blog is about: Maasai pastoralists in Loliondo, who already lost land with the creation of Serengeti National Park, have kept being threatened with “conservation”, and due to the influence of tourism investors been victims of human rights crimes and suffered (keep suffering) a local police state with all government officials at the service of these investors that want to manage the land.

In this blog post:

Resumed hearing in the East African Court of Justice

How could a whole year pass without anyone speaking up about the soldier violence – arson included - of 2018?

Why has OBC’s director, Isaack Mollel been locked up in remand prison for almost a year?

Why has Kigwangalla sued the Jamhuri magazine? (This part may be outdated and irrelevant)

What’s the government’s plan?

Summary of Osero developments the past decades

There are of course more questions than these, and they will be asked in coming blog posts.

A Reminder that the Case about Loliondo in the East African Court of Justice is Continuing, and Late and Limited Updates about the Horrible Proposal About Ngorongoro

In this blog post: 

The news that’s getting old

Court hearing

More about the insane proposal

The threat against the Osero

When the EACJ case was filed

OBC and the draft district land use plan

Kagasheki’s ugly threats and lies

Worsened repression

Majaliwa ”solving the conflict”

Germans

The horror of 2018

2019

Mollel’s prolonged arrest

The shocking proposal

How the defendants have reacted to being sued – committing outrageous perjury

The perjurers’ own documents

Reports about the strangest study tour to OBC’s camp

After 60 Years of the NCAA The Ngorongoro Chief Conservator Announces a Plan to Evict the Maasai Again

While fear and silence continued in Loliondo where government officials will break any law to intimidate anyone who could speak up against so-called “investors” that threaten land rights, things were calming down since there hadn’t been any illegal arrests since January, there weren’t any rangers harassing herders, OBC’s director had for unknown reasons been charged with economic crimes, the president had made a statement on not being happy about evictions of pastoralists and cultivators all over the country, and nothing more was being heard about a threat of Loliondo being placed under the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA). Then, towards the later part of September, news broke that the Ngorongoro chief conservator, Freddy Manongi, and the Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Hamisi Kigwangalla, had presented a plan to not only alienate from the villages the 1,500 km2 Osero (bushland) of important dry season land, but to at the same time evict people and cattle from almost the whole of Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), from the Lake Natron basin and escarpment, and elsewhere, and to restrict land use in other areas. If implemented, such a plan would mean the end of pastoralism in Ngorongoro district, and the end of Maasai culture and lives. The news was met with sadness, confusion, and despair over useless leaders that didn’t immediately act against such an announced atrocity.

As usual, this blog post has many unanswered questions.

In this blog post:

A terrible announcement, an article, and Manongi’s report

Core Conservation Zone –

Core Conservation Sub-Zone –

Transition Zone –

Community Development Zone-

Confusion about game controlled areas

Kigwangalla at the NCAA HQ

Who’s responsible? UNESCO and others?

Slow reactions and a not that strong statement by the Pastoral Council

Mzee telling it as it is

Questions about the Court Cases against OBC’s Director and a Reminder of his More Serious Crimes in Loliondo - Then the Ngorongoro Conservator made the Most Terrifying Announcement

In this blog post:

What has happened

The period that the foreign workers were employed by OBC without permits

Reporting in regular and gutter (Jamhuri/Tanzanite) press

Magufuli issues a directive about those charged with economic sabotage

Statement about implementation of the president’s January statement

Some of the unanswered questions

Then the Ngorongoro Chief Conservator made a marrow chilling announcement

Summary of Osero developments of the past decades

I still don’t know why after all these years while OBC have had almost all government officials in Loliondo serving them with terror and slander against innocent people, the Prevention and Combatting of Corruption Bureau didn’t until February this year act against OBC’s director Isaack Mollel. I don’t know why this happened, what will happen now, or who is doing what, but I know that the charges relevant to the years of suffering in Loliondo were, in some way, dropped early on, and those remaining are of the kind that any arrogant and unscrupulous company could have been charged with, if unlucky.     

I’d still like more people to read the List of people in one way or other involved in the long-time slander,terror, and corruption syndicate in Loliondo, and I’m looking for further information. Also this blog post has too many questions.

On 26^th September the RAI newspaper reported about a terrible announcement by the Ngorongoro Chief Conservator Freddy Manongi (see below, at the end, before the summary). This reached me today on the 27^th and made this all but ready to publish blog post seem quite irrelevant. I will follow up on this - will write more extensively - and am asking all defenders of the land to please come out of your places of hiding as soon as possible.