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Kenya: Indigenous Peoples

Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN HL4539, tabled on 9 May 2024

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Benyon on 18 December 2023 (HL838), whether they have had any discussions with the government of Kenya regarding the eviction and destruction of property of the Ogiek people in the Mau forest of that country.

Answered on

23 May 2024

The British High Commission in Nairobi is closely monitoring events in the Mau Forest. I have not raised this issue with the Kenyan authorities.