Maasai warriors protest at killing

Hundreds of Maasai warriors, women and children marched today, briefly blocking a main road leading to a game reserve popular among tourists, to press for the re-arrest and prosecution of a prominent Kenyan accused of killing of a Maasai game park warden.

But they backed down from an earlier threat to invade the ranch run by Thomas Patrick Gilbert Cholmondeley, whose grandfather Lord Delamare was one of the first white settlers in Kenya. The Maasai warned, however, that they would stage a sit-in at the ranch if authorities fail to re-arrest Cholmondeley by Tuesday.