The Ogiek Case of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Not So Much News After All?

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Ricarda Roesch is a research associate and PhD student at the University of Erlangen Nürnberg. She holds a LL.B in “Comparative and European Law” from the Hanse Law School (Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg) and a LL.M. in International Law from SOAS (University of London). Her PhD research is fully funded by the Heinrich-Boell foundation.

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The Ogiek Case of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Not So Much News After All?

June 16, 2017

Ricarda Roesch

On Friday, May 26, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Court) delivered its long-awaited judgement on the expulsion of the Ogiek people, a Kenyan hunter-gatherer community, from their ancestral lands in the Mau forest. As the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission) did not manage to settle the conflict, it was…