Kenya: Leaders Plead for KDF Help as Armed South Sudanese 'Militia' Cross Into Turkana County

13 October 2020

Turkana County leaders have appealed to the National Security Council to deploy the army to flush out more than 200 heavily armed militia from South Sudan who have displaced Kenyan pastoralists along Mogilla ranges in Turkana West sub-county.

Led by Senator Malachy Ekal and Turkana West MP Daniel Epuyo, the leaders said herders from the South Sudanese Toposa community with their large herds of livestock and sophisticated weapons - including rocket-propelled grenades and automatic machine guns - have for the past three weeks occupied expansive fields more than 50 kilometres from the border.

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