Failure by the Kenyan government to enforce control weapons in Kenya’s ‘Wild West’ pastoral areas have made violent cattle raids the norm, despite decades’ worth of disarmament campaigns.
Senseless death has become the tragic norm across Kenya’s central Baringo County, where behind vast swathes of seemingly endless bush, one never knows who may be hiding with an AK-47, ready to pounce. Baringo has been dubbed the ‘Wild West’ of Kenya as incidences of communal violence – mostly from livestock theft – amongst its pastoral-dominant communities surge.