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Kenya paying huge price for neglecting Northern region

Home guards and Kenya Police Reservists patrol Nakatong'wa Primary School in Turkana East. It was the only school operating after five others were shut down due to rising insecurity in the area. October 28. 2014. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

For months now, armed security agents in armoured vehicles have been combing parts of Northern Kenya in search of bandits who have made life unbearable. Across the border, Uganda troops too have been on standby waiting to repulse herders who regularly cross over in pursuit of pasture and water.

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