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This open letter calls upon the Kenyan Government to halt the ongoing evictions of the Ogiek community in the Mau Forest by the Kenyan Forest Service (KFS) and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).

Three years after Kenya’s indigenous Mau Ogiek people received legal recognition of their rights over their ancestral land, the ruling remains unimplemented, and the Ogiek continue to suffer harassment and threats of further evictions from their own lands.

Focusing on the Ogiek and local communities living in the area around Mt Elgon National Park. This brief report is part of FPP's series on Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas

Forest Peoples Programme was alarmed to learn of events occurring at Chepyuk Forest, on the slopes of Mount Elgon. According to the reports we have received, the indigenous Ogiek community living there was attacked, two people have been killed and other severely wounded, and two hundred houses have been burned down. The aggressors are reported to be from the Pok (Sabaot) group, the locally dominant group.

With conference discussions and commentaries by presenters and community representatives (194 pages)The Ogiek in Mau Forest

Les Ogiek de la Forêt de Mau au KenyaLe massif forestier de Mau est la région forestière indigène la plus vaste située au voisinage de massifs montagneux de l’Afrique de l’Est. Il couvre une superficie d’environ 350 000 ha. Il est localisé à 170 km environ au nord ouest de Nairobi et s’étend le long du district de Kericho à l’ouest, du district de Narok au sud, du district de Nakuru au nord et de celui de Bomet au sud-ouest.

1991- 94

• The Ogiek ancestral lands were opened up for settlement besides the opening of closed schools and gazetting of locations and wards.
• Exodus of the new settlers to the Ogiek ancestral lands.

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