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/ 1 June 2005

Cattle raiders kill nine in Kenya

Ethiopian and Sudanese tribal fighters attacked and killed nine people in separate cattle raids in Kenya, officials said on Tuesday. Toposa fighters from southern Sudan gunned down five members of one family, including two schoolchildren, during a raid on Monday in the Turkana district of north-western Kenya.

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/ 28 January 2005

Hundreds flee tribal fighting in Kenya

Hundreds of Kenyans fled their homes and farms in the western district of Trans Nzoia on Friday, one day after Pokot herdsmen attacked a farm owned by a Luhya tribesman in a simmering two-month-old tribal dispute over scarce pasture and water. Police and army reinforcements arrived in the area on Friday to prevent further attacks.