The Ogiek hunter-gatherer community in Kenya, among the last in Africa, faces renewed persecution as the government continues evicting them from their ancestral Mau Forest lands despite multiple court rulings. These evictions, some as recent as late 2023, are destroying their traditional way of life and come despite international human rights court judgments.

• The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (AfCHPR) ruled in 2017 and 2022 that the evictions were illegal, ordering Nairobi to pay reparations equivalent to more than $1 million.
• Fred Ngusilo, a 38-year-old human rights activist, described violent evictions by armed men and the subsequent suffering of the community.
• More than 20 percent of the Mau Forest has been lost since the 1980s, with some community members alleging the latest evictions are linked to carbon credit projects.