Thessalia IDPs of Kisumu remain displaced 20 years after land clashes

In the run up to the multi-party elections in 1992, a village in Muhoroni in then Kericho District was badly affected by inter-ethnic violence which displaced over 1,000 villagers. These were residents of Thessalia, known to the local community as a Centre of Catholic missionary activities.

Today, the land they once occupied is currently called “Thessalia Holding”, but they cannot reclaim it 23 years after. They are huddled together on a small piece of the earth somewhere near Koru where they have access to no land to till for their livelihood.