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The invasion, reported earlier this week, has raised widespread alarm among farmers and pastoralists, who fear that the pests may devastate crops and vegetation.
In the small, windswept and isolated village of Todonyang, near the Kenya–Ethiopia border on the shores of Lake Turkana, a haunting silence hangs in the air.
The discovery was made after a resident reported a foul smell coming from one of the houses in the neighbourhood.
Turkana County will collaborate with the national government to expedite the issuance of identity cards to thousands of unregistered residents.
The Turkana government has launched a Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) campaign targeting 39,000 children aged between three and 59 months in the Kakuma and Kalobeyei areas.
Speaking during a press briefing in Lokichar, the residents said all lives of Kenyans lost through senseless killings should be treated equally.
The development threatens to roll back years of peacebuilding between the Turkana of Kenya and the Nyangatom of Ethiopia, who have coexisted peacefully for nearly five years.
For decades, families in the Ateker border region have struggled with isolation, insecurity and seasonal floods of River Nakuwa that cut them off from their neighbours across the border.
Turkana County has declared a public health emergency in the wake of significant rise in cases of Kala-azar infections.
These incidents resulted in one herdsman dead and several others injured.
Residents claim that more than ten fishermen have been mauled by crocodiles in recent months.
Ndaka said the tree cover in Meru stands at 29 per cent, and the forest cover is 13 per cent, better than the national average.
At least four Ethiopian Dassanech militiamen and one Turkana herder were critically injured in fresh ethnic clashes on the Kenya–Ethiopia border on Monday.
Ateker community members living in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, and Ethiopia have formally endorsed former Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn as their patron.
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