Vaccination campaign roll outs in Laikipia’s pastoralist communities.
Laikipia Rabies Vaccination Campaign
In Kenya, rabies is estimated to kill up to 2,000 people every year.
Turkanas have contributed significantly to the conflict in Kenya’s Laikipia County.
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For over 20 years, Kenya’s Laikipia region and its neighbours have witnessed violence between January and April over location and geography.
Many pastoralists in central Kenya lost access to their ancestral pasture lands in the early 20th century.
Reuters/Siegfried Modola
The simplistic assumption that the violence in central Kenya is the result of drought mask the more complex underlying dynamics of politics, access to resources and land.