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10 year old child held in Ethiopia for 8 months finally released

The boy after being released [PHOTO BY BAKARI ANG'ELA]

A family in Kibish Turkana North Sub County is celebrating reunion with their 10-year-old child who had been in custody in Ethiopia for eight months after being abducted by tribal militia.

John Emejen was reunited with his mother Akal Ng’ipeyok in an emotional meeting that ended months of distress for the boy’s family. He was abducted in March this year and taken to Kangaten, 700 kilometres away from the Kenyan border, in a region inhabited by Nyangatom tribesmen.

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