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Provide youths in ASALs with education, skills to end banditry

An armed man herding cattle along the Kenya-Ethiopia border. [Lucas Ngasike, Standard]

The weatherman has predicted a sixth failed rainy season. For the ASAL counties, we might see hunger and banditry increasing.

These issues will not go away easily; a long-term approach involving serious innovation and mindset change to create skills and local economies is needed.

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