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Miraa consumption in Kenya is spreading to small town stopping development since men, particularly choose to spend their hard earned money on Miraa instead of re-investing them or spending them for children. Continue reading

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In the raids between the months of February along June, July to September, the government of Kenya has witnessed profound attacks to the Samburu people by neighbouring armed ethnic groups. Can you explain to the Maa people why the government facilitated the killings in Samburu and what the government is doing in terms of compensation and apologizing to the Samburu people? Continue reading

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As we’ve been reporting over the past several months, since February there have been ongoing government assaults on the Samburu people and allied tribes by the Kenyan government, with many people killed and almost all Samburu cattle confiscated. Continue reading

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KARE, the Kenya Aid and Relief Effort whose website this blog is part of, has been worried since last March, when police fired on Samburu from the sky and drove away their cattle, that oil and China lay behind that betrayal of trust. Continue reading