A battle over land use is unfolding between northern Tanzania's breathtaking Lake Natron and national parks. Evictions from ...

Esther doesn't seem to notice the expansive landscape, the distant line of mountains across the border in Tanzania or the thorn acacias dotting the savannah. Eyes shining, the 11-year-old in her blue ...

In Kenya's Maasai Mara, local people say a new luxury safari hotel is threatening the ecosystem – and the livelihoods of ...

Tanzanian authorities opened fire on the Maasai people in the Loliondo area, Tanzania. Video footage shows authorities shooting at the tribespeople in the country’s northern Ngorongoro district. The ...

Dive deep into bush life with the Maasai in Amboseli, Kenya, one of Africa’s most breathtaking safari destinations.

Wearing his traditional red shuka and holding a spear, Issac Loilet sat outside his Tanzanian mud hut to ponder his fate, as the government continued evicting his tribespeople from their northern ...

Discover how the Maasai people in Kenya, facing devastating droughts and land degradation near Mount Kilimanjaro, are combating the impacts of climate change using traditional wisdom and innovative ...

KIMANA SANCTUARY, Kenya -- Kenya's most identifiable community is abandoning hunting lions with spears for javelin throwing at a biannual event called the Maasai Olympics. The Maasai people, renowned ...

This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, and Native News Online. In Tanzania, the ...

Bilal Butt knows how it sounds. The associate professor of sustainability and development at the University of Michigan understands that arguing to let cattle graze in a national park offends the ...

KENYA’S FIRST PRIVATE MUSEUM DEDICATED TO THE MAASAI PEOPLE AND THEIR CUSTOMS Visitors to Kenya often seek additional information about the country’s history and cultures but apart from the National ...

When you give a Maasai warrior a 7-iron, he instinctively compares it to the spear in his other hand. He carries that traditional, effective weapon every day from his adolescent rites of passage ...