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Old 04-18-2013, 10:35   #1
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Tanzania's Maasai battle game hunters for grazing land

Tanzania's Maasai battle game hunters for grazing land

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22155538

"In a remote corner of northern Tanzania, Boeing 747 planes land on a private airstrip, trucks with United Arab Emirates (UAE) number plates drive across the plains, and anyone with a cell phone receives an unlikely text message:

"Dear guest, welcome to UAE."

For centuries, the sprawling savannah in the Arusha region of the East African nation was home to the Maasai people, but these days it can feel more like Dubai, one of the states that make up the UAE......................."

Money talks in Africa and nobody cares about the little people.
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