Date: Fri Dec 5 17:33:04 2014
Kenya: More Than 310 Killed in Inter-Communal Attacks Between Between
January and November - Report
By Mercy Njoki
5 December 2014
More than 310 people have died, 214 have been injured and 220,177 displaced
in a spate of attacks in Kenya from January to November this year, a report
says.
The report on inter-communal conflict by county is by the United Nations
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in East Africa (OCHA).
The statistics are attributed to intercommunal conflicts, revenge attacks,
fights over land and water resources, cattle rustling, and struggles over
political representation.
Cattle rustling and revenge killings are termed common in Northern Kenya's
remote and impoverished regions in which automatic weapons are many.
"Violent conflicts involving pastoralists have become widespread and
increasingly severe in the northern Rift Valley and north-eastern regions of
Kenya," OCHA says in the report.
The counties worst hit by the conflicts are Garissa, Mandera, Wajir, Isiolo,
Samburu, Turkana, Baringo, Trans Nzoia, Nyakach, Kisumu and Kipini.
The al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for many of the attacks including
those in Lamu, Likoni, Kisauni and Mpeketoni at the Coast, and the latest
two in Mandera in which a total of 64 people were killed.
The country's current state of insecurity is also attributed to increasing
terrorist activity.
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