Updated Sun, October 23rd 2016 at 00:00 GMT +3Residents flee from their home to seek refuge in caves at Chesongoch and Chesetan area along the Kerio Valley in Elgeyo Marakwet County. The violence pitting the Pokot against the Marakwet communities has claimed scores of lives and displacing thousands. Save for the occasional security vehicle plying the Tot-Biretwo road, ours is the only car on the road as we head to the Kerio Valley side of Elgeyo Marakwet County. “We have never witnessed such heinous killings since the day cattle raids were first reported in Kerio Valley. Justine was herding his family’s livestock along the pasture rich banks of the Kerio River when armed Pokot raiders suddenly attacked him before driving away his animals.

Source: Standard Digital October 22, 2016 20:15 UTC