UAE Oil Barons “Conserve” Tanzania’s Rich Lands by Pushing Out Indigenous Communities

UAE Oil Barons “Conserve” Tanzania’s Rich Lands by Pushing Out Indigenous Communities

This story is the third in our three-part environmental justice series “Peril in East Africa.” Read the first part here and the second part here. It’s early enough in the Maasai village of Ololosokwan in northwestern Tanzania’s Loliondo Ward, for the fog to still hug the brushy landscape and its people. But underneath the semblance of somnolent normality are the undercurrents of a deep-seated fear: evictions from their ancestral land.  Many Maas…