Tanzania charges 20 Maasai with murder after police officer dies during protests
by Caroline Kimeu in Nairobi from Environment | The Guardian on (#60NVE)
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Twenty Maasai pastoralists from northern Tanzania have been charged with the murder of a police officer during protests over government plans to use their ancestral land for conservation and a luxury hunting reserve.
The officer was allegedly shot by an arrow on 10 June while attempting to demarcate land in Loliondo, which borders Serengeti national park.
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