Kenya's Ogiek people being evicted for carbon credits - lawyers
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1970-01-01 08:00
Leaders of the Ogiek community say armed forest rangers are "pulling down houses with axes and hammers".

Kenya's government is illegally evicting hunter-gatherers from their ancestral lands to profit from carbon offsetting schemes, human rights lawyers say.

Hundreds of members of the Ogiek community are being evicted from the Mau Forest, say their representatives.

Ogiek leader Daniel Kobei said...

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