More than 310 people have died, 214 have been injured and 220,177 displaced in a spate of attacks in Kenya from January to November this year, a report says.
The report on inter-communal conflict by county is by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in East Africa (OCHA).
The statistics are attributed to intercommunal conflicts, revenge attacks, fights over land and water resources, cattle rustling, and struggles over political representation.
Cattle rustling and revenge killings are termed common in Northern Kenya’s remote and impoverished regions in which automatic weapons are many.
“Violent conflicts involving pastoralists have become widespread and increasingly severe in the northern Rift Valley and north-eastern regions of Kenya,” OCHA says in the report.
The counties worst hit by the conflicts are Garissa, Mandera, Wajir, Isiolo, Samburu, Turkana, Baringo, Trans Nzoia, Nyakach, Kisumu and Kipini.
The al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for many of the attacks including those in Lamu, Likoni, Kisauni and Mpeketoni at the Coast, and the latest two in Mandera in which a total of 64 people were killed.
The country’s current state of insecurity is also attributed to increasing terrorist activity.
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