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Women and children are badly affected in the escalating Kuria Clashes |
 The violence, which has so far claimed over 30 people, over one 1000, has intensified over the last two month following what initially were said to have been incidents of cattle rustling between the two clans. Over 200 houses have been burnt completely and property worth millions of shillings destroyed. “We have to cross quickly into Tanzania or else they will kill us,” she tells this writer as she hurries away, not wanting to spend a minute longer. The children are barely managing to keep her pace but they have no choice and run along with the mother. |
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Parent's authority over children's marriage being put to test with new technology |
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Garissa- North Eastern In the Somali culture, the institutions of elders and parents reign. They are able to decide whether one will have a bright future or a poverty-stricken one. These institutions have for a long time been the relationship movers and shakers in North-Eastern province of Kenya. Their age-old tradition has withstood Western influence. But with the rise of an enlightened generation, the parents’ power to sway their children whom to marry is being put to the test now more than like ever before. |
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The Media that Kenya Should Have
