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Before dawn on 12 July 2005, about 1,000 heavily armed bandits made a series of raids in the Didigalgalo-Turbi area some 130 kilometres from Marsabit Town. At least 53 people, including 21 primary school children, were killed. The bandits left a trail of destruction at the trading centre and Turbi boarding primary school and burned to the ground the nearby group of dwellings. Area residents narrated how the armed raiders surrounded them and went for the primary school where Class Eight pupils had gone for their morning preps. They recounted how nine pupils from the primary school were sprayed with bullets in cold blood as they huddled together on the dusty floor of the houses where they had sought refuge. An elderly woman residing in one of the two houses was also killed. Others were hacked to death by panga-wielding raiders whose intentions appear to have been aimed at massacring the entire village. An infant had his head smashed on a rock. More than 100 people were badly injured some and were rushed to hospital in Marsabit Town by traders.

Before dawn on 12 July 2005, about 1,000 heavily armed bandits made a series of raids in the Didigalgalo-Turbi area some 130 kilometres from Marsabit Town. At least 53 people, including 21 primary school children, were killed. The bandits left a trail of destruction at the trading centre & Turbi boarding primary school & burned to the ground the nearby group of dwellings. Area residents narrated how the armed raiders surrounded them & went for the primary school where Class Eight pupils had gone for their morning preps. They recounted how nine pupils from the primary school were sprayed with bullets in cold blood as they huddled together on the dusty floor of the houses where they had sought refuge. An elderly woman residing in one of the two houses was also killed. Others were hacked to death by panga-wielding raiders whose intentions appear to have been aimed at massacring the entire village. An infant had his head smashed on a rock. More than 100 people were badly injured some & were rushed to hospital in Marsabit Town by traders. References. Adapted from the source document.

Throughout the world's arid regions, and particularly in northern and eastern Africa, formerly nomadic pastoralists are undergoing a transition to settled life. This reference shows that although pastoral settlement is often encouraged by international development agencies and national governments, the social, economic and health consequences of sedentism are not inevitably beneficial.

Die aktualisierte und stark überarbeitete Fassung des Berichts von 1997 schildert die Menschenrechtsverletzungen und ihre Hintergründe im Norden Kenias an den Grenzen zu Äthiopien und Somalia. Die Infrastruktur dort ist dürftig, die ethnische Lage kompliziert. Immer wieder kommt es zu blutigen ethnischen Auseinandersetzungen; die Regierungskräfte beteiligen sich mitunter an den massiven Menschenrechtsverletzungen. Zusätzlich kompliziert wird die Situation durch die in dem Gebiet operierende und Einfluss nehmende Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) und die äthiopische Armee. (DÜI-Sbd)

As Pastoralists Settle: Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Kenya. Elliot Fratkin and Eric Abella Roth, eds. New York: Kluwer Academic, 2005. 280 pp.

Cover -- Series Editors -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- Foreword -- I: Introduction -- 1: An Overview of Approaches to Sustainable Development -- II: Approaches to Sustainable Development -- 2: Accounting for Sustainability -- 3: Sustainable Management of Water Resources: An Economic View -- 4: Labour Force Analysis as a Means to Understand the Livelihood Dimension of Sustainability -- 5: Sustainable Utilization: A Grand Illusion? -- III: Rural Applications of Sustainability -- 6: Population and Food in South Asia: Recent Trends and Prospects -- 7: Land, Livestock and Livelihoods: Towards Sustainable Pastoral Development in Marsabit District, Kenya -- 8: Annapurna Conservation Area Project: In Pursuit of Sustainable Development? -- 9: Global Processes and The Politics of Sustainable Development in Colombia and Costa Rica -- IV: Coping with Industrialization and Pollution -- 10: Sustaining Mineral-Driven Development: Chile and Jamaica -- 11: Pollution Patterns in the Industrialization Process -- 12: Industrialization in Vietnam: Social Change and Environment in Transitional Developing Countries -- 13: The International Dimensions of Sustainable Development: Rio Reconsidered -- 14: Sustainable Development: Taking Stock -- Name Index -- Subject Index.