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Middle Eastern kings and princes may force up to 48,000 people in Tanzania from their land to make way for corporate-sponsored big game hunting says Avaaz Representatives from the Maasai community have urgently appealed to Avaaz to raise the global alarm call and save their land. Avaaz claims that Middle Eastern kings and princes are about to force up to 48,000 people in Tanzania from their land to make way for corporate-sponsored big game hunting. But Tanzanian President Kikwete has shown before that he will stop deals like this when they generate negative press coverage says Avaaz. At any moment,...

Britain suits Maasai marathon warriors to a tea By Kevin O'Sullivan Last Updated: 2:45am BST 07/04/2008 African tribesmen arriving to run in the London Marathon this weekend have instantly become addicted to the British "cuppa". A Maasai tribe from the village of Elliai put their feet up whilst drinking mugs of sugar-packed tea Six Maasai warriors, who have never before left their tiny Tanzanian village of Eluai, have settled in today with mugs of sugar-packed tea. Their guest home in Cooling, Kent, is run by mother-of-three Clare Martin, 34, who said: "We soon found out what they did and didn't...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Two powerful defendants, two courtrooms, two similar outcomes: Charges are dropped in high-profile cases that moved even a magistrate to wonder aloud at the state of justice in this former British colony. In one, a court dropped murder charges against the grandson of one of Kenya's first white settlers who was accused of killing an African game warden and member of the tribe that says its lands were taken by the settler family a century earlier. In the other, Attorney General Amos Wako said neither police nor prosecutors had had time to investigate whether Kenya's first...

Tuesday, 14 September, 2004, 14:00 GMT 15:00 UK Maasai man in Kenya reveals all Saloon met his Kikuyu wife at school. She is now in hiding. A Maasai man in Kenya has had his penis bitten off by his angry wife, who suspected him of adultery. Saloon Ole Mewet from Ngong in southern Kenya said his spouse attacked him in his sleep. "She bit me and removed all of it," he told the BBC's Muchiri Kioi. His shouts raised the alarm and he was taken to a local hospital by his neighbours where he received stitches. It is an unusual...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Maasai warriors and Arizona cowboys appreciate many of the same things - healthy cattle, roasted meat and the open plains - so it's no wonder they struck up a friendship.A group of Maasai departed for Arizona on Wednesday to learn how to merge ancient Kenyan traditions with modern American agro-economics, reciprocation for a visit by a group of Arizona cowboys in 2002.Ranchers from the Douglas, Ariz.-based Malpai Borderlands Group will be showing off the conservation and economic benefits of open rangelands when Maasai from Kenya and Tanzania spend a week with them.The Arizona ranchers came to Kenya...

E N O O S A E N, Kenya, June 3 — Arrayed in red robes and bead jewelry, impoverished Kenyan Maasai tribespeople gave a U.S. official their most precious possession — cattle — to show sympathy for the bereaved of Sept. 11.