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Place where guns, bows and arrows are a child’s way of life

A child sleeping outside their make shift bed at Chesited in Tiaty, Baringo County. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

At 16, bows and arrows were Riwo Kuyow’s tools of trade.

He was already man enough to do what his parents, and indeed the community, knew as their way of life -- banditry. Now 24, Kuyow is a father of six and counting.

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