About 48,000 members of the Maasai tribe may be forced off their lands in Tanzania to allow for animal shooting sprees for foreign royals, pending a deal from a big-game hunting corporation and ...

KAMPALA, Uganda – Tens of thousands of Tanzania's ethnic Maasai people are homeless after the government burned their houses to keep the savannah open for tourism benefiting two foreign safari ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s government ...

Thousands of Maasai herders from Tanzania are at imminent risk of eviction from their ancestral lands to make way for government plans to develop the area for tourism. At least 20,000 Maasai herders, ...

A Maasai woman, at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro near the Kenya-Tanzania border in Kajiado December 13, 2014. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Maasai herders ...

An investigation by the Oakland Institute, a policy think tank, has turned up allegations that the government of Tanzania is sidelining the country’s Maasai population in favor of tourism. The ...

ARUSHA, Tanzania (Reuters) - At 12, brown-eyed Neema Laizer persuaded her elementary school teacher to accept one liter of milk each morning instead of money because her father refused to pay for a ...

Namnyak, a Maasai herder in north Tanzania, fears a carbon credit scheme linked to Volkswagen -- dismissed by NGOs as "greenwashing" -- could destroy her community's way of life. Under the scheme, ...

Traditional Maasai living in one of the world’s most famous wildlife centers are pitting themselves against the government in a fight for land. The Loliondo region in northern Tanzania lies along the ...

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Maasai herders used to fighting to survive on the savannah have moved to a new battleground - a Tanzanian court - in a case highlighting increasing conflict in ...