Tanzania: tension in Loliondo area as troops move in to evict about 70k Maasai pastoralists to make room for trophy hunting and elite tourism

The Tanzanian government is intending to resume the eviction of about 70,000 Maasai community in Loliondo to make room for trophy hunting and elite tourism.
The move, which will involve dispossessing over 70,000 Maasai pastoralists of 1500sq km of their ancestral land, which will be set aside exclusively for the Ortello Business Company, a hunting firm o…