{{Kenya has endorsed a move by the region to have joint efforts to bring peace to border areas between Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan, in what appears to be an attempt to end perpetual tribal raids.}}<\/p>\n
In a meeting on Monday chaired in Kampala by Uganda\u2019s First Lady Janet Museveni, ministers in charge of security and regional relations from Kenya, Ethiopia and Kenya agreed to \u201can integrated plan\u201d to have communities living in these areas live in peace.<\/p>\n
In a 12-point communiqu\u00e9 issued after the Monday meeting, the ministers said they would be \u201ccommitted to the establishment of strong institutional arrangements\u201d that ensure every campaign for peace or security is harmonised for the \u2018Karamoja Cluster.\u2019<\/p>\n
The \u2018Karamoja Cluster\u2019 is an IGAD phrase used to describe cross-border region of four IGAD member countries. They are south western parts of Ethiopia, north western Kenya mainly in Turkana County, south eastern parts of South Sudan and north eastern parts of Uganda.<\/p>\n
According to IGAD, these areas are located \u201cin the peripheries\u201d of their respective countries and share a history of under-development, marginalisation and insecurity.<\/p>\n
As it is now, each of the country connected to the \u2018Karamoja Cluster\u2019 deals with its own security problem even though communities living here are mostly pastoralists who bump into each other over water and pasture.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ministers identified lack of effective coordination and harmonisation of these efforts as the main reason behind limited progress,\u201d said a statement after the meeting.<\/p>\n
In August, ten people on the shores of Lake Turkana were killed after they were reportedly ambushed by suspected Ethiopian bandits in Todonyang.<\/p>\n
This wasn\u2019t the first time such an incident happened. In 2011, about 15 people were killed after raiders attacked the same area.<\/p>\n
But the areas have started appearing on the map as oil explorers continue to find oil and governments identify the need for security.<\/p>\n
The Monday meeting, said the communiqu\u00e9, was meant to review national policies and regional programmes for peace, security and development in the \u2018Cluster\u2019.<\/p>\n
Although IGAD has been active in campaigning for similar programmes in the past, it would be interesting to see how this goes because numerous peace deals between the pastoralist communities have often been broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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