Armed herders invade Kenya's most important wildlife conservancy
Nomadic herders have killed wildlife and torched buildings but questions remain over the causes of the violence Thousands of heavily-armed herders are invading conservancies, private properties and smallholdings in Laikipia, one of Kenya’s most important wildlife areas, as they search for pasture for their cattle.Over the past couple of weeks, about 10,000 nomadic herders, armed with automatic rifles and driving 135,000 cattle, have left a trail of destruction and chaos in the county, just
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