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Kenya evicts settlers

Three decades after allotting land to the hunter-gatherer community of Ogiek in Mau forest, the Kenyan government has asked them to leave. The 2,500 Ogiek families have been asked to surrender their title deeds by October.

The move, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said, was made to save the country