Grace Ngusilo, a member of The Ogiek Community salvages what was left after her house was demolished by the police in Sasimwani, Mau Forest. Hundreds of people from the Ogiek Community have been left homeless and in biting cold after the Government of Kenya embarked on an eviction exercise to remove alleged encroachers of Mau Forest. A statement by Ogiek People’s Development Program (OPDP) said that the eviction of forest communities violates their human rights and called on the government to immediately halt the exercise.

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Keywords: community, demolished, development, displacement, eviction, forest, grace, homeless, house, houses, mau, ngusilo, ogiek, opdp, people’, program, sasimwani