Kenya: In Kenya, Scarcity and Drought are Driving Two Tribes to Go to War

Jul 30, 2016 | Bill Corcoran, Irish Times
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The air of tranquillity that dominates Lake Turkana’s desolate northwestern shoreline and surrounding rural landscape belies the severity of the tribal conflict gripping this part of the world’s largest permanent desert lake. Temperatures of 40 degrees are common in this part of the Rift Valley, which remains largely untouched by civilisation’s modern trappings. Most people live in beehive huts made from grass and tree fronds; villagers still follow the traditional approach of fuelling their fires with dried animal dung.