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Dilemma of community displaced by bandits, exiled by government

Endorois elders point to land in Arabal where hundreds of families were displaced due to banditry attacks. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Mary Mursoi stood in awe as she gazed at the beauty of the green valley of Arabal from the highest point of Ngelesha sub-location in Baringo County.

Overgrown with thickets and infested with bandits with no visible structures, Mursoi claims she will walk to where her home was despite leaving a decade ago following a rise in insecurity.

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