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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.
Namuar said residents have seen no tangible development since 2022, describing the governor’s first term as a failure.
There are fears of fresh conflict along the Kokuro–Todonyang border corridor linking Kenya and Ethiopia, as worsening drought forces pastoralist communities into contested grazing zones.
What began as a mild itch in May 2025 slowly turned 75-year-old Ayanae Apukae's world into darkness and, by December, she could no longer see clearly.
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