Kenya ordered to compensate Ogieks

Elders of the Ogiek community in court in 2014. PHOTO | FILE | NMG

Kenya will in three months know how much it has to pay the Ogiek community for continuously evicting them from the Mau Forest in the Rift Valley.

On May 26, the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights sitting in Arusha, found the Kenya government guilty of violating the cultural and economic rights of the community by persistently evicting them from their ancestral land.