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June 14, 2012
On June 12th through 14th, a lawsuit brought by the Samburu Indigenous People of Kenya against the US NGO African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and the Kenya government institution, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), has a hearing at the high court in Nyeri, Kenya.
January 20, 2012
The Samburu's legal case against the African Wildlife Foundation and the Kenya Wildlife Service is gaining more attention in the regional press, with reporting coming from AfricaNews on Tuesday.
January 9, 2012
First Peoples Worldwide announced a grant of $7,000 that will enable Sambu
December 15, 2011
Yesterday a Kenyan court recognized the transfer of title to the property known as Eland Downs, from the African Wildlife Foundation to the Kenya Wildlife Service, the government agency that manages Kenya’s national park system.
December 9, 2011
A report by the Transparency International released Thursday ranks Kenya 154 out of 182 countries that were surveyed on the Corruption Perception Index.
December 1, 2011
Two Samburu elders who were beaten and arrested during a week of police violence against the Samburu people in Laikipia, Kenya, have been released. Police also released the Samburu people’s cows, goats, and sheep that survived last week’s police round-up and impoundment.
November 29, 2011
A Samburu community’s fight to retain their land and grazing rights on a property known variably as Kisargei, Elan Downs, or Kabarak Farm in Kenya’s Laikipia district turned violent over
June 22, 2011
A film called “Conservation’s Dirty Secrets” spotlights the alleged role of the African Wildlife Foundation in the brutal evictions of Samburu pastoralists in Kenya over the last three years.
June 1, 2011
Samburu pastoralists who were forcibly evicted from lands in Laikipia district that were owned by former president Daniel arap Moi are preparing for their day in court. A judge in Nyere will hear their case on June 7, 8, and 9.
May 13, 2011
Samburu families who are suing Kenya’s former president Daniel arap Moi celebrated a small but significant victory in a Kenyan courtroom May 12, when their lawyers persuaded a high court judge to allow them more time to prepare their case.
December 15, 2010
Six high Kenyan officials have been charged by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) with crimes against humanity for their part in violence that left more than 1,000 people dead after the disputed 2007 presidential election. Of the six, two men exercised direct authority
December 15, 2010
In late November, hundreds of heavily armed policemen forcibly evicted 300 Samburu families from ancestral lands that former president Daniel Arap Moi had purchased in a land-grab typical of his administration.
October 13, 2010
In response to the abuse of Samburu people by Kenyan police that was documented by Cultural Survival, a Kenyan organization has initiated trainings for police who are sent to Samburu East district.
August 12, 2010
According to a report issued by the Samburu Women for Education & Environment Development Organization (SWEEDO), Kenya’s new constitution “is a clean break with the past and provides several avenues for the pursuit and strengthening of Indigenous peoples’ personal and collective rights.”
June 10, 2010
In the last two weeks, there have been further incidents of police brutality against the Samburu people of northern Kenya.
May 10, 2010
Michael Lolwerikoi, representing the Samburu people of Kenya, and Ellen Lutz, executive director of Cultural Survival, presented Cultural Survival’s report, “When the Police are the Perpetrators,” to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of ind
April 14, 2010
We are encouraged that there have been no more full-scale police attacks on Samburu villages since Cultural Survival’s research delegation gathered evidence of the attacks in January.
April 1, 2010
The Samburu people are calling for international help.
February 23, 2010
Cultural Survival is appealing to Kenyan government authorities to halt police operations in Northern Kenya, where Indigenous Samburu villages have suffered brutal police attacks over the last year.
January 1, 2010
"On behalf of the Pastoral Nomadic Indigenous Samburu Community of Northern Kenya: the local leaders, the elders, the counselors, the mothers, the children and our Member of Parliament, The Hon Raphael Letimalo, please accept our heartfelt indigenous greetings: Supa!
