Exposing how state-led development in Tanzania has displaced the Barabaig community, undermining their land rights and livelihoods.
Category: Barabaig
Kilombero
East African Crude Oil Pipeline
The EACOP, undertaken by Total Energies, has displaced thousands of indigenous peoples in Uganda and Tanzania from their homes
Hanang
A vast Canadian wheat cultivation scheme deprived indigenous Barabaig pastoralists of their ancestral land in the 1970s. Subsequent development projects, population growth, and conservation activities have made the pursuit of pastoral livelihoods even more difficult.
Vilima Vitatu Village
The Tanzanian Central Government has taken 12,830 hectares of land in Vilima Vitatu village and allocate it to the WMA with consent.
Bagamoyo
The influx of land-buyers is crowding out pastoralists in Bagamoyo. Additionally, a mega sugar cane plantation is being built, leading to more evictions of pastoralists.