The European Commission (EC) has removed Tanzania from the list of countries eligible for its 18 million Euro conservation grant to be launched in East Africa as part of its NaturAfrica initiative.
- According to statements by the Maasai International Solidarity Alliance (MISA) and Survival International, the EC removed Tanzania from the list on World Environment Day (June 5), in response to the Tanzanian government’s recent series of harsh evictions to remove the Maasai people.
- The nomadic and pastoralist Maasai people are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting selected but large parts of northern, central and southern Kenya and across the border in northern Tanzania as well.
