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Upper Eastern Kenya Leaders Urge Peace Amid Political Tension in Isiolo

During the 2007–2008 post-election crisis, while violence was most intense in the Rift Valley and Nairobi, North Eastern and Upper Eastern Kenya experienced displacement as non-Kenyan Somalis and minority groups were scapegoated and moved out. Up to 600,000 Kenyans were displaced nationwide, many within border counties (estimates range 180,000–700,000)- Upper Eastern Leaders do not wish […]