More than 200 women on Tuesday broke into tears at a public meeting to express their desperation following the beheadings of two people by suspected Somali bandits in Ngomeni, Kitui. The wailing women, who had fled their homes, shocked Kitui Senator David Musila and Mwingi North Member of Parliament (MP) John Munuve, who had gone to console them at a makeshift camp in Kasiluni, prompting a premature closure of the meeting. The women removed their headscarves and wept uncontrollably, some rolling on the muddy ground. Some of them said they had been rendered widows and many children orphaned over the years in an endless cycle of banditry. Six local primary schools - Mandongoi, Ngooni, Engamba, Kasiluni, Kathungu Inyanzai and Sosoma - have been closed since January over insecurity.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 09, 2017 23:03 UTC