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Nairobi, April 27, 2004 (The East African Standard) – Six people, including a 58-year-old woman, were at the weekend killed following renewed clashes between two rival Somali clans in Mandera district.
The fighting over grazing pasture and water point pit the Gare and Marule communities who are believed to be using foreign militia forces from neighboring countries.
And yesterday the government intensified security operations along the borders with Ethiopia and Somalia to avert further militia incursions from the neighbouring countries.
North Eastern Provincial Commissioner, Mr. Abdul Mwasera, said security personnel, including the military, were mobilized along the common border amid claims that one of the feuding communities harbored militias from Ethiopia.
The move follows the weekend incidents in which heavily armed Ethiopian raiders ambushed and killed five people before escaping to Somalia after fighting broke out between the two Somali clans.
Mwasera said at least 25 suspects had been netted by yesterday in connection with the killings. The Gare elders accepted liability.
The Gare community reportedly killed five people including a four-year-old boy in a revenge attack barely a day after the Marule murdered a herdsman when an ethnic flare-up over grazing pasture broke out in Wante location in Ramu division.
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