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Why are the Maasai in Tanzania contesting relocation from a heritage site?

Why are the Maasai in a conservation clash with the Tanzanian government? Kenya Airways post a profit after years of revenue loss. And Uganda’s draft Teachers Bill causes concern.

The Maasai community in northern Tanzania has continued to protest against what they call forcible evictions from their ancestral lands at the Ngorongoro conservation area and a UNSECO heritage site. Why are they being relocated?

Kenya’s national carrier, Kenya Airways, has announced that it is out of the doldrums, and has posted its first net profit in more than a decade. What lessons have they learnt from the past, and is the recovery sustainable?

And Uganda proposes a new law that will require teachers to attain a bachelor’s degree to continue in the profession.

Presenter: Charles Gitonga
Producers: Bella Hassan in London. Frenny Jowi in Nairobi
Technical Producer: Philip Bull
Senior Producer: Patricia Whitehorne
Editors: Alice Muthengi and Andre Lombard

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