While the plan will affect villages in other parts of the country, Ngorongoro is the only area disproportionately affected, as all its villages have been singled out for delisting.
Maandamano haya yanakuja wakati ambapo serikali ikendelea na mpango wake wa kuwahamisha Wamasai zaidi ya 110,000 kutoka Ngorongoro kwenda Msomera, Sauni, na Kitwai zaidi ya kilomita 300 kutoka makazi yao ya sasa.
The protest is the latest in a series of actions against a government relocation plan aimed at moving 110,000 Maasai from Ngorongoro to Msomera, Sauni, and Kitwai—over 300 kilometers from their current homes.
The lawsuit opposes plans to relocate them to allow for the expansion of the Mbozi meteorite conservation area.
Wanafunzi wadai kusitishiwa ufadhili wa masomo, au kucheleweshewa malipo, bila taarifa, hali wanayosema inawasababishia usumbufu mkubwa.
136 Maasai people from Msomera are threatening to return to Ngorongoro if authorities fail to provide them with the incetives they promised.
Ngorongoro MP (CCM) Emmanuel Oleshangay questions the government’s claim that the relocation exercise is voluntary, demanding authorities explain why they cut essential social services if that is the case.
The Ngorongoro conservation area is the only place in Tanzania where its residents have to be inspected to get to their homes from wherever they go. It’s as if NCA is a country within a country.
The eight-day expedition in December 2023 is marketed as a “truly extraordinary experience to explore Africa’s most iconic landscapes.”
The families that were affected by the auction have appealed to the government to place them under a government subsidy program, as they have returned to abject poverty.
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