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Seven schools closed as hundred flee tribal on Kilifi-Tana

Ganze MP Kazungu Tungule together with the Kilifi security personnel holding a public baraza with the somali herders and the locals in Ganze ,Kilifi county following a tension over the disappearance of a herder in the area. [Marion Kithi ,Standard]

Seven schools have been closed in the volatile parts of Ganza and Magarini constituencies along the Kilifi and Tana River border as tension rose over a possible return of tribal clashes.

On Tuesday, over 100 armed herders surrounded Lagobaya village in Kilifi after one of them was attacked by the farmers over grazing rights.

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