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Report: Attacks on Indigenous Land Defenders on the Rise

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This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online, and APTN. When around 70,000 Indigenous Maasai  were expelled from their lands in northern Tanzania in 2022, it didn’t happen in a vacuum. For years, the Tanzanian government has systematically attacked Maasai communities, imprisoning Maasai leaders and land defenders on The Traitored-up charges, confiscating livestock, using lethal violence, and claiming that, Read More