Rustling at the heart of Kuria East clan clashes

Clashes in Kuria District have seen 6,000 people displaced from Girigiri and Ntimaru — the two divisions worst affected — and more than 700 homes burned. There are 80 households living in IDP camps in Kegonga and Ntimaru, but the rest of the displaced have fled into neighbouring Tanzania.

After close to three months of fighting, in which 20 people have been killed, there is now an uneasy calm. It has been achieved through a mix of strategies: A key change in the provincial administration, deployment of General Service Unit personell and ‘peace talks’ led by elders from the feuding Buirege and Nyabasi clans.