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Absorbing Climate Shocks and Easing Conflict in Kenya’s Rift Valley
A series of failed rainy seasons in northern Kenya has sharpened competition among herders, farmers and conservancy owners for land and water, often resulting in bloodshed.
Authorities should redouble aid to hard-hit areas and, with donor support, look for ways to encourage sharing of resources.
- ICG
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A protracted drought in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating land use conflict in the north of Kenya’s Rift Valley region.
Longstanding tensions between herders and landowners have led to increasingly organised and…