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Why only men die in Wajir inter-clan conflict

A journalist picks a Koran littered in a mosque at a deserted Gunani village after over 30 people were killed during clan clashes in Tarbaj Constituency, Wajir County. [PHOTO: PIUS CHERUIYOT]

WAJIR COUNTY: Early Sunday morning a week ago, about 100 heavily armed men arrived in a village in Wajir on a deadly mission that has revealed enmity between two clans of Kenya’s Somali community could be worse than thought.

In Gunana village on the border between Wajir and Mandera counties, a militia from the Degodia clan lay in wait, well aware of the impending attack.

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