OUR LAND, OUR RESPONSE:
14 community based organisations in Loliondo called on the Tanzanian government in April 2013 to do the following
•Immediately cease its plan to grab land belonging to villages to hand over to investors under a pretense of public interest.
•Acknowledge and affirm that the Loliondo Game Controlled Area is within legal village boundaries.
•Desist from spreading its deliberately misleading propaganda that the 1,500 km2 land it is grabbing is not within the boundaries of legal villages.
•Allow the villages in the Area to continue to manage their land according to the Village Land Act No.5 of 1999 and Local Government (District Authority) Act No.7 of 1982.
•Stop intimidating the village communities and their representatives, as well as human rights activists, civil society organizations and journalists who are attempting to inform the public about this issue
•Stop the misuse of peace and security forces such as the police to forcefully evict people from their home and lands and damage their property.
There has so far been no shift in government policy concerning the area.
VISUALISE THE LOLIONDO LAND GRAB
Map by Geoffrey Sayer who used Google Maps and the Tanzanian government’s Land Use Plan 2010-2030 to base this depiction of the disputed land in Loliondo, Tanzania.
PLEASE NOTE that the roads as shown by Google satellite do not match the government’s road maps, and the boundary of NCA to the south does not match the maps in the Land Use Plan.
Give us our Weapons
Watch Maasai girls peform a song and dance for their parents to convince them to send them to school - if they are educated they say, they will not lose their land.