Maasai herders fight on to stop luxury game reserve

Lawyers for Maasai herders who say the Tanzanian government is trying to violently evict them from their ancestral land to make way for a luxury game reserve have lodged an appeal against a court ruling that dismissed their case. They say it “disregarded the compelling multitude” of evidence they presented in court.

The legal battle dates back to 2017, when residents of four Maasai villages in northern Tanzania went to court to try to stop the authorities evicting them from 1,500 sq km of land in Loliondo, bordering the Serengeti national park.