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Maasai activist Edith Santiyian during an interview with bird story agency at COP28 held in Dubai, November 2023. Photo: Seth Onyango, bird story agency

Maasai activist turns juicy inspiration into climate action

Edith Santiyian started a foundation dedicated to reforestation using fruit trees

Maasai land in Tanzania earmarked for UAE royals

Protracted effort by authorities to evict the pastoralists in Loliondo for safari tourism has led to violent confrontation

Maasai girls participate in a newly conceived rite of passage to mark their ascent into womanhood, one that will hopefully keep them safe from the deadly consequences of traditional practices. (Jonathan Torgovnik, Hewlett Foundation, Getty Images)
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When police crashed her wedding, she was 8. Her soon-to-be husband was 67.

Across the continent, women are helping to reimagine a sacred rite of passage in an effort to honour their cultures and spare their bodies.

Titoia Kisemei has called the Kajiado District Hospital’s manyatta TB ward home since she was diagnosed with the illness. The innovative units are aimed at helping members of the nomadic Maasai adhere to months of TB treatment.

These hospitals have become a home away from home in the Maasai’s fight against TB

When TB strikes, the fight to live can come at the cost of a way of life for the country’s nomads. This could help ease the pain.

​Women of the Maasai fight back for their daughters

Girls as young as 10 feel the blade but an extraordinary group is fighting against female genital mutilation (FGM).

The Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania.

Dubai royals hunt out Maasai land

Plans to turn ancestral Maasai land into a reserve for a Dubai royal family appears to be going ahead.

The Maasai sisterhood of education

The Maasai sisterhood of education

An initiative to get young rural girls into school is paying dividends in Tanzania.

Circumcisions haunt Kenya’s Maasai females

Some of the Kenya’s Maasai young women are running away from of the age-old custom of circumcision, now frayed by health risks and new laws.

Seasonal visitors have front-row seats for migration

Seasonal visitors have front-row seats for migration

The Masai Mara is Kenya’s iconic game reserve, with almost inconceivable numbers of wildlife grazing, hunting, mating, birthing and dying across mile upon mile of undulating…

Where God stepped down

In an extract from their new book, Peter and Beverly­ Pickford share their vision of Ngorongoro, a world heritage site and the Maasai’s­ sacred place.

Maasai warrior hairdressers break taboos

Maasai warrior Lempuris Lalasho went to Kenya’s tourist haven Mombasa to find a white woman to marry, but he ended up working as a hairdresser.

Kenya parliamentary polls test fragile coalition

Kenyans voted on Wednesday for five parliamentary seats that will decide who holds the majority, a test of stability in the East African nation.