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Current Feed ContentJoseph Lotaba - "I don't understand why my home was burnt"Father-of-five Joseph Lotaba woke up on 6 March morning to fire and panic as a neighbouring village in Rift Valley's Laikipia West district went up in flames. Soon, it was his village's turn to face the wrath of hundreds of attackers who were hacking people with machetes and burning homes and granaries. This was a day after violence erupted in Rumuruti - pitting the Turkana and Tugen communities against the Kikuyu - following the killing of a suspected rustler. Calm has since returned to...KENYA: Too scared to go homeA month after clashes erupted in Kenya's Rift Valley district of Laikipia West, calm has returned but internally displaced persons (IDPs) are yet to return home, with leaders voicing concern over the acquisition of guns by communities living in the area. "Let us not confuse calmness for peace while ethnic animosity persists," Frederick Chisia, the new district commissioner for Rumuruti division, told a peace and reconciliation workshop on 26 March in Nyahururu, the district's headquarters. ... |
