A wiser journalist that I once knew gave me a piece of advice, saying: “Beware of simple explanations for complex problems.” It is a bit of wisdom that has proved profoundly true for the crisis that ...
But a Catholic Church official said 10 Borana clansmen, including four children, had also been killed on Wednesday. “Six adults and four children were taken from a vehicle that was being driven by a ...
DAHABO Temam was preparing to wash her baby son when she was warned a rival tribe were about to storm the village. Minutes later, automatic gunfire signalled the start of a terrifying attack. The ...
A brutal tribal conflict over water in arid north-east Kenya has left more than 70 people dead, after an Ethiopian bandit attack on children on their way to school prompted an apparent revenge killing ...
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. For pastoralist communities of Northern Kenya such as the Borana tribe, cattle and rain are ...
Amina Duba of Kenya's Borana tribe and Ol-Johan Sikku, a herder from the Sami community, speak about being marginalized. (Credit: Copyright 2015 Carla Capalbo/Reuters ...
Politics hinders aid to 11 million East Africans. Shortly after dawn on a Tuesday morning last summer, raiders from the Borana tribe broke into a northern Kenya school in Turbi. With machetes and ...
ISIOLO, Kenya, May 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sitting on a roadside boulder at the edge of Kenya's Isiolo airport, six young men engage in a friendly argument over what speed an airplane ...