| A battle for livestock between Ethiopian and Kenyan nomads has left 38 people dead in drought-stricken northern Kenya. Official and aid workers said on Thursday that Dongiro warriors had crossed into Kenya last Friday and attacked Turkana herdsmen in order to steal their animals. Njenga Miiri, the district commissioner for Turkana, said the fighting killed 30 of the raiders and eight Kenyans, all of them women and children. The clashes took place in the remote village of Lokamarinyang, along the Kenya-Ethiopia border and 420km north of Lodwar, area aid worker Lucas Ariong said. News of the battle only reached the regional capital on Thursday morning, nearly a week later. Cattle rustling by nomadic tribes in the semi-arid region that encompasses northern Kenya, Uganda, southern Sudan and Ethiopia is common, and the tribes in the area do not respect national borders. |