Kenya: Raila Says Military to Flush Out Ethiopians-allAfrica.com

The military has been ordered to flush out the 2,500 Merille tribesmen from Ethiopia who have been attack communities living along the common border.
The government has also given notice to the Ethiopian government to relocate the Merilles voluntarily or they face forceful eviction from the Kenyan security agencies. The Merille are responsible for killing more than 40 people during an attack two weeks ago.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Raila Odinga told Parliament that a Cabinet sub-committee chaired by President Kibaki had met on Tuesday and authorized the forceful relocation of the Merilles if they did not leave willingly. "The Merilles have already been told to move through a notice. If they do not move they will be evicted," Raila said.
Raila said an estimated 900 of the total population of the Merilles who have pushed out the Turkanas and other communities from the areas near the Lake Turkana are armed militiamen while the rest were farmers. The Merilles are now living 17 kilometers inside the Kenya border.

Raila attributed the invasion of the Merille and their continued stay in the area to a collapse of security at the Kenyan borders. "We spend millions on our military. We train, promote and retire our soldiers who never go to any war!,"Raila said during the PM's weekly address. He said serious measures had been put in place including the upgrading of Todonyang Police post into a fully fledged police station.
Raila said the government had also taken other measures to protect the country's borders. These included the deployment of the military and the police to Migingo and Ugingo Islands where Kenyans are at the mercy of Ugandan forces which have seized the islands and established control.
He said the military had despatched a plane to the islands for surveillance purposes and had established that no Ugandan flag was hoisted there as alleged by some of the residents and fishermen from the area.
MPs blamed the government for doing nothing to secure the country's territories despite frequent aggression by neighbours with expansionist tendencies. "This is a shocking admission of government failure on a section of its citizenry. How much has the government set aside for the plans to improve security," wondered Imenti Central MP Gitobu Imanyara.
Mandera East MP Mohamed Hussein said the idle Kenyan military should be put to use to scare away external aggressors targeting the Kenyan borders. Igembe South MP Mithika Linturi wondered what the National Security Intelligence was doing to protect Kenyans from further attacks.

Ruth Gruber, From Exodus to Ethiopia: Honored at 99 for Decades of Photography - NYTimes.com

Ruth Gruber, From Exodus to Ethiopia

By JAMES ESTRIN

Ruth Gruber is a pioneering correspondent and humanitarian who recorded the expansion of the Soviet gulag system and the unending trials of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Her own life is chronicled in the 2007 memoir,Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the 20th Century Tells Her Story” (Random House, 2007).

At 99, she is being duly recognized as an accomplished photojournalist, too. This month, she won the Cornell Capa Award from the International Center of Photography. (At the same event, Elliott Erwitt won the Lifetime Achievement Award.) An exhibition of Ms. Gruber’s photos from the Soviet Arctic, Palestine, Ethiopia and the Alaska Territory opens Friday at the center, in mid-Manhattan.

She began carrying a medium-format Rolleicord as a correspondent for The New York Herald Tribune in the 1930s. “I just put one finger on the shutter and I found I was really enjoying it,” she said. “Now I could make my own pictures that also told the story.”

James Estrin/The New York TimesRuth Gruber at home in Manhattan this week.

The centerpiece of her work is her coverage of a 1947 debacle in which British authorities not only refused to permit 4,500 Jewish refugees into Palestine but forced them to return to Europe and debark in Germany. The refugees had reached Haifa on a passenger ship called Exodus 1947. There, they were transferred to three smaller steamers, including the Runnymede Park, which Ms. Gruber visited.

Ms. Gruber said only three journalists were allowed aboard the ships where the refugees were being held. She was the only one to bring a camera. In an interview this week at her Manhattan apartment, she described the grim scene:

I took countless pictures of them because I couldn’t believe what they had done. Nobody could destroy them. They survived the death camps, the D.P. camps, the broken-down ship [Exodus 1947] and now this ship.

The people began to talk to me. Many of them spoke English. They said, ‘Go below and see our floating Auschwitz.’ There was a prison gate. I went down to the hold. It was dark. There were no beds, there were no sheets. Only people on the floor, crowded together. They slept on the floor, crushed together.

When they heard an American young woman — a Jew — had come, they handed me phone numbers, asking me to call their relatives and tell them they were alive. I told them I would.

They saw my camera and they yelled: ‘Take pictures! The world has to know how they’re treating us! Take pictures!’

It was dark. The British had transformed this ship into a prison ship, with a little prison window. Briefly, light came through the window on all the people, and it was easy to shoot them holding their babies. Every man, every woman wanted a baby because that meant their lives were being healed, that they were human beings again.

There was a woman holding a baby and I asked if I could hold it. I crushed it to me. I don’t know who needed to be held more — the baby or me.

After she was told to leave the ship, the British consul general demanded the film from her camera. She refused to yield it. She filed a story to The Herald Tribune in Paris and brought the film there the next day. The pictures were distributed around the world, focusing attention on — and building sympathy for — displaced persons.

Ms. Gruber tried to follow the people she had met on the Runnymede Park. Told by the British that they would be landing on Cyprus, Ms. Gruber flew there and spent a week awaiting their arrival, taking pictures as she did so.

“They never came,” she said. “They were sent back to Germany by the British government. Nobody got to Cyprus. It was a lie.”

Kenya Govt intensifies patrols along Kenya-Ethiopia border Kenya Broadcasting Corporation: - KBC News

(File photo) President Mwai Kibaki has assured wananchi that Kenyan security officers have intensified patrols along the Kenya-Ethiopia border with a view to forestalling a recurrence of violence in the area. Noting that early this month the country lost several lives during a cross-border conflict on the Kenya-Ethiopia border, President Kibaki said his Government responded promptly to this security challenge by deploying additional security personnel in the affected border area. "Following this deployment, peace and security has since been restored," the Head of State said. The President was speaking Friday at the Recruits Training School in Eldoret where he presided over the passing out parade of newly qualified Armed Forces recruits. President Kibaki pointed out that recently he also held discussions on the border conflict with the Prime Minister of Ethiopia in Kampala and agreed on the need for a joint ministerial meeting which will seek ways of restoring any beacons that may have been destroyed along the Kenya-Ethiopia border. In this regard, the President expressed confidence that the joint ministerial meeting of the two countries will resolve outstanding border issues and facilitate harmonious co-existence of the various communities living along common borders. President Kibaki, at the same time, urged security officers deployed to the border to remain vigilant in order to ensure peace and security are maintained in the area at all times. He also called on local leaders in the region to engage in peace initiatives involving elders between communities living along the border so as to resolve conflicts that are linked mainly to resource sharing. "We are aware that since the 1990s, revenge attacks between the two communities along our common border with Ethiopia have been cyclical," President Kibaki said. Besides the border with Ethiopia, President Kibaki observed that the situation in Somalia also continues to pose challenges to Kenya's national security. Said the President: "These challenges have been worsened by the proliferation of small arms as well as the recruitment of Kenyan youth into radical insurgent groups." In view of these threats, the Head of State said the Government has stepped up security measures to forestall any acts of aggression and ensure the security of Kenyans. He disclosed that adequate officers have also been deployed to secure the border with Somalia and ensure fighting does not spill over into Kenya. President Kibaki, therefore, asked members of the public to complement the efforts of the Government by volunteering information that will lead to the pre-emption of crime and the apprehension of criminals. Regretting the recent death of five children from a bomb explosion in Kajiado district, President Kibaki said the military and other security forces must ensure that the training fields remain secure after training. "I have, therefore, instructed that steps be taken to ensure unexploded bombs are removed from the training fields after firing exercises," President Kibaki said. Recognize that the security challenges the country is facing transcend across borders and require transnational strategies to overcome, the President said the Armed Forces have continued to cooperate with other countries at the regional and international level in addressing security challenges. Regionally, President Kibaki said the Armed Forces are actively engaged in the activities of the East African Standby Brigade with a view to building capacity in conflict preemption and management in the East African region. At the international level, the President said the Kenyan Armed Forces have continued to take part in peacekeeping operations. "Presently, our Armed Forces have deployed over one thousand personnel on peacekeeping and other international humanitarian work throughout the world. These commitments have earned our Armed Forces a proud reputation internationally," President Kibaki said. Commending the Armed Forces for the civilian and humanitarian services they have continued to provide, the President said the Government appreciates their efforts and will continue to extend the necessary support needed to enable the country's security apparatus to discharge security services adequately. To the newly qualified Armed Forces recruits, President Kibaki congratulated them and wished them success in their new career and in all their future endeavors, encouraging them to uphold the same strength of character and determination they demonstrated in the course of their training. "You are also expected, to maintain high levels of professionalism and discipline. Above all, you are expected to maintain the highest standards of loyalty to the Government and people of Kenya," President Kibaki told the newly qualified Armed Forces recruits. Earlier after he arrived at the Armed Forces Recruit Training School, the President officially opened a newly constructed kitchen. The occasion was also attended by Forestry and Wildlife Minister Dr. Noah Wekesa, Defence Assistant Minister David Musila, Eldoret North MP William Ruto, the Chief of General Staff Gen. Jeremiah Kianga, service commanders and parents and relatives of the newly qualified recruits among others.

Nyota confirms new gold exploration targets north of Tulu Kapi - Proactiveinvestors (UK)

Nyota Minerals (LON:NYO,ASX:NYO) has found multiple new gold targets on its northern licences in Ethiopia, around 100 kilometres away from its flagship Tulu Kapi mine development project.

It highlighted three of the most substantial targets in a statement to the stock exchange this morning. The main targets are Boka-Sirba, the Quartz Vein (QV) target and the Mole-Fadumi target.

These targets were initially picked out from airborne geophysics data and were subsequently confirmed through a substantial reconnaissance field programm. Nyota said it has confirmed the presence of gold mineralisation, and base metals, in a large number of heavy mineral concentrate samples.

"Nyota believes that the scale of the individual targets discovered together with the confirmed presence of both gold and base metal mineralisation is significant,” chairman Melissa Sturgess said.

“No assay results have been received to date but the exploration team have clear evidence of gold present at all of the major targets complemented by active artisanal mining.”

A variety of samples – taken from stream sediments, rock chips and soil – have been submitted for assay.

Sturgess emphasised Nyota’s ‘twin focus’ which is still set on building the Tulu Kapi production profile and exploring the group’s other licence areas to provide the medium and long-term growth potential.

She added: “The discovery of potentially large, previously unrecognised gold and base metal targets to the north of Tulu Kapi in conjunction with the multiple gold targets already discovered in and around Tulu Kapi, strengthens the company's view that its large landholding sits within a new gold province in western Ethiopia."

The northern licences comprise four separate exploration areas - Bambasi, Mendi, Gombe and Dura – and collectively they cover about 3,200 square kilometres.

The three individual targets named in this morning’s statements were found within broader target areas, Nyota said. The group noted other targets of merit namely Bendokoro North, Daleti-Urungu and Wawu North.

It also highlighted that from a geological point of view the structurally complex, with multiple styles of mineralisation recorded to date.

Once the assay results are in Nyota plans to prioritise a group of targets for a drill programme which could get underway in the fourth quarter of 2011, after Ethiopia’s wet season.

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Ethiopia rebels say govt troops kill 100 civilians - AlertNet

Addis Ababa often rejects rebel claims

* Rebels say troops tried to 'silence' U.N. witnesses

* Two U.N. workers still missing

By Aaron Maasho

ADDIS ABABA, May 16 (Reuters) - Ethiopian government troops have killed more than 100 civilians, including a local U.N. worker, during a five-day military operation in the oil and gas-rich Somali Region, a rebel group said on Monday.

More commonly known as the Ogaden, the ethnic Somali province is home to a low-key insurgency led by the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), which has fought for independence since 1984.

Government officials could not be reached for comment.

"The Ethiopian army and its local conscripts killed more than 100 civilian people from May 10 - 15 in the area, (and it) is still on going," the ONLF said in a statement.

"The (ONLF) intelligence service has ascertained that the Ethiopian army conducted the killing and abduction of U.N. local staff in the Ogaden jointly with the notorious militia of the (local) administration," it said.

The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) said on Saturday that one of its drivers had been killed in an ambush by unknown gunmen in an attack that left another staff member wounded. [ID:nLDE74D0CU]

Two members of the convoy were also missing, WFP said.

The ONLF said the incidents occurred while government troops conducted "kill-on-sight" operations in the Ogaden's Fafan valley and that the attack on the U.N. convoy was an attempt to "silence" its employees who had witnessed the operations.

Authorities in Addis Ababa were not immediately available for comment, but they usually reject the group's claims as "baseless propaganda".

The allegations are impossible to verify because journalists and aid groups cannot move unhindered in the area.

This is not the first time the ONLF has accused government troops of atrocities in the region. The group said in January that soldiers had arbitrarily executed civilians and carried out ethnic cleansing in the province, a charge dismissed by the authorities. [ID:nLDE70K10N]

Ethiopian forces waged an offensive against the rebels in late 2007 after the ONLF staged a pre-dawn attack on a Chinese-run oil facility, killing 74 people. Analysts say the rebels have since been weakened, but are still capable of launching hit-and-run attacks.

Ethiopia signed a peace deal in October with one faction of the ONLF, though another wing labelled the deal "irrelevant". The faction with which Addis Ababa sealed the accord says it represents 80 percent of the group's fighters.

The Horn of Africa nation says the Ogaden basin may contain gas reserves of 4 trillion cubic feet and major oil deposits. (Editing by Richard Lough and Elizabeth Fullerton)

NATO intercepts military cargo ship bound for Eritrea - UN

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May 12-- -- NATO Naval forces have reportedly captured a heavy weapon carrying cargo ship destined to Eritrea in the international waters of the Indian Ocean.

NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance between the US and various European countries. It is currently engaged in the bombing of Libya.

A UN monitoring group report this week revealed that the cargo originally shipped from North Korea was carrying 15 tonnes of rockets, surface to air missiles and explosives worth $US15 million.

In December 2009, the UN Security Council imposed sanctions against Eritrea, which include an arms embargo, travel restrictions and a freeze on the assets of its political and military leaders for an alleged involvement in training and supplying weapons to Al-Qaida and links Somali Islamic rebels.

After the UN Security Council passed the resolution against the red sea nation, the Southern Red Sea and the Indian Ocean have increasingly been monitored by multi-national naval forces mainly from the US, France and Germany, to maintain security and international law in the waters.

The Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group have been accusing the Government of Eritrea being a regional destabilising factor by its continued political, financial and allegedly military assistance to armed opposition groups in Somalia.

There are allegations that Eritrea has been importing arms from Eastern Europe and Asia.

Ethiopia has recently threatened to attack Eritrea to stop an alleged continued terrorist acts and the armies of both sides have remained on high alert then after. Eritrea became independent from Ethiopia, making its larger neighbour landlocked, in 1993 following 30 years of struggle however the two neighbours fought a 1998-2000 war over their disputed border that killed over 70,000 people.

Capital FM Kenya: Kenya, Ethiopia leaders in talks after killings

1/1 President Kibaki with Ethiopian PM Zenawi/ PPS KAMPALA, Uganda, May 12 - President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday held crisis talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi over the recent attacks in Turkana. At the meeting held in Kampala, Uganda, the leaders agreed that a joint ministerial group of the two countries should meet and urgently resolve border issues that have emerged after the conflict pitting the Turkana and Merille peoples. "They underscored the importance of harmonious co-existence among communities living along common borders," a statement from the Presidential Press Service said. The leaders also directed that the joint ministerial meeting should seek ways of restoring any beacons that may have been destroyed along the Kenya-Ethiopia border. Militia from Ethiopia's Merille tribe last week attacked and killed 38 people in Turkana. Rift Valley Provincial Commissioner Osman Warfa said trouble started when four Merille tribesmen ambushed a group of fishermen near Lake Turkana and killed their leader. "In the commotion that ensued, unknown Turkana persons in quick retaliation shot the four Merille militiamen dead," he said. As a result, some members of the Dasenach Merille community escaped from Turkana village and ran towards the Ethiopian direction for their safety. "On their way to Ethiopia, it is alleged that they met a group of Dasenach Merille who were escorting a group of Turkana community members who had gone to Siees village to purchase food. Word reached them that their colleagues had been killed by Turkanas at the Todonyang Mission compound; that is when they turned against the Turkanas they were escorting and killed nine men, 10 women bringing the total number of Turkanas killed to 20," the Assistant Minister said. Both of the two communities from the two countries are semi nomadic who are known to co-exist but they often clash and resort to gun fights to settle their differences. Kenya has formally written a protest letter to Ethiopia over the attacks and reports of tampering with border beacons along the common border.

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At least 19 dead in Kenya, Ethiopia border clashes

ISIOLO, Kenya - Clashes between tribesmen in the remote, arid northern region of Kenya that borders Ethiopia killed at least 19 people and security has been beefed up in case of more reprisals, officials said on Tuesday.

Rift Valley Provincial Commissioner Osman Warfa told Reuters 19 Kenyans died in fighting with raiders from the Merrille tribe, also know as the Dassenech, from Ethiopia.

Cattle rustling and clashes over grazing land and access to water are relatively common in the region, though the extent of the casualties this week has concerned local officials.

"Our team has assessed the situation and established that the attackers were from the Merrille community from Ethiopia who had come inside Kenya," Osman said.

"Security has been beefed up. We have deployed more security forces and we are liaising with the Ethiopian government to restore calm and contain the situation," he said.

Another government official in northern Kenya said 21 Kenyans had died along with four Ethiopian tribesman in a series of tit-for-tat clashes along the border.

He said one Kenyan died in an initial raid into Turkana by the Merille. The Kenyan tribesman retailated, killed four Ethiopians and pursued one man who escaped. But the Kenyans came under attack again and 20 were killed, the official said.

The Ethiopian government said it was checking on the reports but did not have an immediate comment.

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Tribal clashes continue at Kenya/Ethiopia border - storyful

Tribal clashes continue at Kenya/Ethiopia border

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Further violence has gripped the Kenyan/Ethiopian border region where more than 40 people were killed earlier in the week. Border clashes between Kenyan Turkana tribesmen and their cross-border Ethiopian Merille counterparts have left scores dead and now the number of people seeking refuge has increased dramatically. Most of those killed were Turkana. Some of their tribe had gone into the border region to trade with the Ethiopians, who now live on the Kenyan side of the border, but were ambushed on their return and apparently slaughtered in a shootout.

The border region east of Kenya’s Lake Turkana remains a hotbed of conflict, with thousands of foreign nationals resident inside Kenya’s borders, and large pockets of the native Turkana population now displaced.

The victims in the alleged recent spate of killings were people who were fleeing the area due to previous clashes, in which more than 40 people died.

At the same time, fresh information suggests five more people may have been killed by Merille bandits two days after 20 others were shot dead.

Turkana North district commissioner Jack Opuo could neither confirm nor deny the killings at Todonyang on the Kenya-Ethiopia border, saying security personnel had been dispatched to investigate the incident.

“Security personnel have been sent to verify the alleged killings,” said Mr Opuo on phone.

But residents fleeing the insecurity-hit area said among the dead were Mr Edapal Lokoyo, his two daughters, a Mr Nakonyi and another person.

“The victims were escaping from the trouble-hit area when they were shot dead,” said Ms Jacinta Ekai by telephone. She termed the killing an act of provocation.

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The border conflict has remained in the headlines in Kenya for the last week, with the government dispatching troops and a ‘fact-finding mission’ to the region to establish what can be done. The border region has seen violence before, but with 35 Kenyan tribesmen dead, their bodies littered across the plains straddling the border, the government immediately sought a route to peace in the area.

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Ethiopian armed men 'kill 38' at Kenya border - AFP

NAIROBI — An attack by Ethiopian armed men on a rival community in a remote region of north Kenya on their border left at least 38 people dead, a local official said Wednesday, warning the toll could rise.

"Where the incident occured is very remote and mostly not accessible," Rift Valley Provincial Commissioner Osman Warfa told AFP in an update on Tuesday's attack.

"Security forces have been combing the area since last (Tuesday) evening and the number of people killed by Merile militia men from Ethiopia is now 38," he added.

The raid had targeted fishermen and cattle herders from the Turkana community, who are normally armed in that region, he said. But several women coming home from market also got caught up in the fighting and were killed.

"By yesterday (Tuesday) only 18 bodies had been found. We had reports that more people had been killed but we had not found all the bodies.

"Based on the total number of bodies found so far, 38 people in all were killed," Warfa said, adding that the death toll might continue to rise.

"A security operation has been launched in the area and we are working with authorities from Ethiopia to help us apprehend those who committed the atrocities and help secure the border," he added.

There is a history of cross border inter-community violence between the Turkana and the Merile.

However Warfa said the two groups "have been living peacefully in recent weeks and even doing cross-border trade."

"We don't understand where the animosity came from," he said.

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Stratex finds bonanza gold grades during sampling in Blackrock licence, Ethiopia

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Sampling work on the company's Blackrock licence in Ethiopia's Afar region has found bonanza gold grades

Stratex International PLC (LON:STI) said it found bonanza gold grades during rock sampling at the Black Water zone within its 100 percent owned Blackrock Exclusive Exploration Licence (Blackrock EEL) in the prospective Afar epithermal gold province of eastern Ethiopia.

Surface rock-chip samples returned up to 60.4 grammes per tonne gold from the Nesbitt target and 34.6 g/t Au from the Oasis vein systems at the Blackrock EEL.

Channel-chip sampling of Theodore target returned best grades of 25 metres at 1.15 g/t Au and 15.2 metres at 1.28 g/t Au, while best values returned at Nesbitt were 6.1 metres grading 1.01 g/t Au and 0.5 metres at 38.3 g/t Au.

The work has identified wide zones of gold on the Theodore, Nesbitt and Oasis vein systems over 4.57 kilometres combined strike within the previously discovered 14 kilometres of outcropping veins over the Black Water and Magdala zones of the Blackrock EEL.

Executive director David Hall said: "These first samples of outcrop at the Black Water zone have returned bonanza grades, i.e. greater than 30 grams per tonne gold, and wide zones of gold mineralisation up to 25 metres in width, further highlighting the potential for major multiple gold mineralisation at this exciting discovery where four key zones have been identified to date.”

"With this in mind, our exploration programme at Blackrock will continue at pace as we focus on advancing the Stanley, Nesbitt, Oasis, Theodore and Baker targets to a drill ready status.  We also eagerly await the results from a 3,000 metre drill programme at our Megenta gold project in Ethiopia, where we believe there is a potential to intersect, at depth, similar multi-gram gold grades."

It is anticipated that the Blackrock prospects can be fast-tracked through to drill-ready status before the end of the year.  The regional infrastructure is being rapidly upgraded by mining majors such as BHP Billiton which are conducting significant potash programmes.  In line with this, major camps, new roads and associated infrastructure are currently being established.

In the meantime, drilling of the company's first project in the Afar, Megenta, will commence shortly, funded by the joint-venture partnership with Thani Ashanti, an AngloGold Ashanti alliance.

The Canadian Press: Heineken wins bid to buy 2 state-owned Ethiopian breweries for 163M, says government agency

"Heineken wins bid to buy 2 state-owned Ethiopian breweries for 163M, says government agency
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An Ethiopian official says Heineken has won a $163 million bid to buy two state-owned breweries.
Private and Public Enterprises Supervising Agency spokesman Wondafrash Assefa said Tuesday the Netherlands-based brewer wants to expand the breweries and introduce other products, possibly including nonalcoholic beverages, in the East African nation.
A Heineken spokesman told The Associated Press by phone that the company had not been notified about the government's final decision on the bid.
The world's third-largest brewer offered $78 million for Harar Brewery S.C. and $85 million for Bedele Brewery S.C.
Last year, Heineken enjoyed strong growth in Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil, and several mid-sized Asian countries."

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The militia crossed into Kenya through Lake Turkana

The Kenyan government has beefed up security along the Kenya-Ethiopia border following Monday's attack by the Merille militia from Ethiopia that left 20 Kenyans dead.

According to internal security PS Francis Kimemia, members of the Merille militia crossed over into the country through Lake Turkana killing one Kenyan and injuring another.

This prompted members of the Turkana community to trail the raiders and kill four of them.

It was an altercation that was to prove costly after word of the retaliatory attack spread to neighboring Ethiopia prompting a violent reprisal by the raiders' kinsmen that resulted in the death of 19 more Kenyans.

A security team led by Rift Valley Provincial Commissioner Osman Warfa and Turkana North MP John Munyes and officials from Ethiopia was on Tuesday holed up in a security meeting. A similar session is due to be held between the Kenyan government and a governor from Ethiopia.

The Kenyan government has since written a protest letter to Ethiopia over the incident.