Kenya: Security Teams Sent to Country Ethiopia Border

6 August 2011

Additional Security personnel have been sent to Todonyang area in Turkana North where more than 20 people were killed during fighting between the Merille tribesmen from Ethiopia and the Turkana community yesterday.

Rift Valley PC Osman Warfa says a team of senior security personnel has also been sent to the area to coordinate efforts to restore calm in the area where tension is high following the killings.

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