Communication sent by the Special Rapporteur Indigenous Peoples on  alleged imminent threat of eviction faced by the Sengwer indigenous people. According to the information received, police are poised to forcibly evict Sengwer indigenous people from their homes in the Embobut Forest area. For centuries, the Sengwer indigenous people, also known as the Cherangany indigenous people, have lived, hunted and gathered in the Embobut Forest area in the Rift Valley of Kenya. Sengwer continue to live in or near the Embobut Forest and to engage in cultural and subsistence practices in the area. According to reports, police forces have been gathering in the Embobut Forest area in preparation of evictions ordered by the Government in pursuit of forest and water conservation objectives. Sources report that since the 1970s Kenyan authorities have made repeated attempts to forcibly evict the Sengwer from the forest for resettlement in other areas.