The East African Standard looks at those displaced in the violence
About 2,500 police officers are being deployed to the western Kenyan region of Kerio Valley to hunt down those responsible for the deaths of 10 people, including two politicians, amid cattle-rustling violence.
Some 4,000 people have also been displaced in a region the authorities have declared to be “dangerous and disturbed”.
The region has always experienced low-level violence between the Pokot and Tugen ethnic groups over grazing for their cattle – and the latest clashes come amid a severe drought.
Analysts say elections due in August are also adding to the tension.
Deputy President William Ruto, who visited Kerio Valley on Monday, said $970,000 (£780,000) would be set aside to compensate those who had lost livestock in the region during the recent cattle-rustling incidents.
Today’s papers are going big on the government’s operation against the rustlers:
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