Leaders renew push for long-term peace in troubled Kerio Valley

Kerio Valley residents inspect damage caused by bandits in a previous attack. [File, Standard]

Most of the troubled Kerio Valley has seen a four-month reprieve since August, when rampant killings, tensions, and livestock theft ceased.

A number of areas that had become battlefields are slowly returning to normalcy, but mistrust among warring communities reigns in banditry-prone sections of the Kerio Valley, stretching across Elgeyo Marakwet, Baringo, and West Pokot counties.