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Laikipia clashes

Police in riot gear patrol Rumuruti town in Laikipia County on September 16, 2021 following clashes among pastoralists.

| Cheboite Kigen | AFP

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Uneasy calm returns to Laikipia after weeks of armed violence

By  Eric Matara

Correspondent

Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • Young, unmarried and often uneducated, the herders boast that they do not back down from a fight.

It took us almost two hours to drive from Rumuruti to Airewa in Sosian ward, Laikipia North.

The road is rough and bumpy. On arrival at the Sosian trading centre, we were directed to a set of plains about half a kilometre away.

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