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  • What drives conflict in northern Kenya

    Posted: December 18, 2009, 7:02 pm by Dosma
    MARSABIT, 18 December 2009 (IRIN) – Cattle raids, inter-communal resource conflicts and banditry are common across much of the arid lands of northern Kenya, where firearms are increasingly common among pastoralist communities. In 2009 alone, such violence claimed more than 354 lives, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Kenya. [...]

  • Dandora Waste Site Under the Spotlight

    Posted: December 18, 2009, 7:02 pm by Dosma
    Eight years after Dandora, the site of Nairobi’s only rubbish dump, was declared full and a health hazard, tons of fuming waste from more than four million city dwellers continue to be added daily, exposing local residents to illness but also profiting a few. More than 100,000 people live around the dumpsite, a 13-hectare grey [...]
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