Inventory of conflict and environment ice, tana river. The violence was the worst of its kind in kenya since the countrys 2007 08 cr isis, which left 118 people dead and more than,500 displaced over 50% of the,500 were children, women and the elderly. Tana and athi rivers development authority tarda together with mumias sugar company ltd mscl came into an agreement to undertake sugarcane growing and ethanol production in the tana delta on 20,000 ha of the 40,000 ha land owned by tarda. This project will operate a mobile library that will ply two secondary schools in the tana river delta region in kenya. Interethnic clashes and police violence after the 2007 elections left up to 1,300 people dead and more than 650,000 displaced. It was only after the vessel berthed at the kipevu oil terminal on wednesday, april 1 the day the country was glued to the news that the first covid19 patient had left hospital that it was. The tana river delta land use plan is a framework to support government, private sector and small holder developments that are guided by strategic environment assessment sea, management plans. Unrest, including murder and armed clashes linked primarily to gang activity, has been reported in the run up to elections held over the past year in a number of the areas identified as potential violence hotspots in the upcoming general election. Since december 2004 an estimated 20,000 people have been displaced by violence in mandera district. The impact of changing water resources on wetland agroecological production systems in the tana river delta, kenya.
Lake victoria, the rift valley, the athigalanasabaki river and coastal areas to its south, the tana river. Building a culture of peace in kenya baseline report on conflict. Pdf file of the complete article 344k, or click on a page image below to browse page by page. The violence was the worst of its kind in kenya since the countrys 200708 crisis. Interethnic clashes among pastoralist communities remain a prevalent issue, continuing to cause security concerns and minor displacement around the country. Soil and terrain conditions for the upper tana river. Economic impacts of cc in kenya riparian floods case study. The surviving victims of the latest tana delta clashes are arriving in malindi for emergency treatment as others run away to other neighbouring areas. Tana river kenya district primary education profile. Feeding spineless cactus to cattle for drought resilience, kenya.
Oct 01, 2012 economic and political factors are behind the latest series of incidents in the volatile north. Strenghtening hunger resilience the kenya red cross. It analyses the clashes in the tana delta which escalated in august 2012 from a political angle. Tana river clashes, which claimed the lives of more than a hundred people, was told that two members of parliament, a minister, and other leaders were responsible for the violence. In kerio valle y and tana river, the clashes were between. The communities of the tana river delta share a long history of conflict, of which the 201220 clashes have been the latest culmination. The status of lake tana fishery was evaluated from analysis of commercial catch data of number i fishers cooperative. Tana river county tana river county at a glance the county borders garissa to the north, isiolo to the northwest, lamu to the northeast, kilifi to the southeast, taita taveta to the south, and kitui to the west area. A resident displays used bullet cartridges after an attack in kilelengwani village in tana river delta in kenyas coastal region. Identification of management options and development of action plans for ecosystem services in kigaruni wenje wrua, hola sub county, tana river county.
Leaders fault state as raiders kill 32 more in fresh tana. There is a crossborder, regional dimension to intercommunal violence in kenya in the form of crossborder reprisals. During the year 2014 2015 several interclan conflicts and clashes took place in tana river, marsabit, mandera, wajir, turkana, west pokot among other counties. In august 2012, a series of ethnic clashes between the orma and pokomo peoples of kenyas tana river district resulted in the deaths of at least fiftytwo. Kenyas capital city, nairobi, is located in the southcentral part of the country. Conflict over rangeland resources in tana river is further restricting access to pasture and water fewsnet 30082016. Tribal clashes in the totality of this region of the country where in nearly all. The data collection has been carried out from september.
Errata for the pdf reference, sixth edition, version 1. Those orientated were drawn from kwale, garissa, nairobi, meru north, tana river, koibatek, nakuru, kajiado and laikipia districts. Tarda agricultural farming in tana river delta, kenya ejatlas. It will provide books to 300 secondary school students whose schools were vandalized during the ethnic conflicts during 201220. The flow of water at garissa is approximately 151 cubic meters per second. The county public service board is mandated to and responsible for the human resource management of the county public service. The tana delta is located in the coastal region of kenya at the end of kenyas longest and largest river. The violence was the worst of its kind in kenya since the countrys 200708 crisis, which left 118 people dead and more than,500 displaced over 50% of the,500 were children, women and the elderly. The school needs a generator for students to study at night, a multipurpose room. It analyses the clashes in the tana delta which escalated in august 2012. The violence thought to have been triggered by ethnic. In the vast majority of clashes, the perpetrators act with impunity.
Farmerherder violence in the tana river delta ecc platform library. Strategists, activist organizers, scholars, and teachers will find many uses for the database, as well as citizens wanting to learn more about the often invisible conflicts taking place. The tana river figure 1 is the longest river in kenya, originating in the aberdare mountains, west of nyeri, and flowing for over 1,000 km to meet the indian ocean in the ungwana baykipini area. It is now a year since the ethnic clashes in the tana delta ended as abruptly as it started and life has slowly returned to normal. County public service board elgeyo marakwet county. The tool contains a set of spatial data layers that describe several biophysical, environmental and social aspects of kenyas tana river basin. Dozens killed in kenya violence at least 39 people have been killed in fresh clashes between rival communities in the tana river district in kenyas coast province, according. Areas that are mostly affected by the cyclic conflict include chara, kipini, tarasaa divisions in tana river district and witu in lamu west. According to kenya red cross assessments in garissa and tana river, displaced populations. In tana river district, conflict is mainly in the form of intertribal wars often centring on communal water and pasture resources wlea, 2002. This project explores the connection between the changing climate in tana river and the violence between these two tribes. Tribesmen launched new attacks in kenyas southeastern tana river area early on september 11th, torching houses and killing at least three police officers, police sources said. Tana river governor dhadho godhana c before the senate committee on. The studies revealed water quality of lake is getting enriched with pollutants such as higher nutrient inflow reduced water quality of the lake water.
Part of the effort would involve the foundation expanding its footprint into the interior where the clashes occurred. A channel cut into the tana river by a farmer in august for irrigation purposes is expected to cause extensive. Tana river enrolment pyramid for primary and secondary grades overview of tana river district the grade pyramid shows the number of pupils by grade. Taveta and tana river counties along kenyas coastal region. A case in point is the recent tana river county clashes involving the pokomo and the orma communities in which the raging storm of violence claimed the lives of over 100 villagers. Tana river county european external action service. Given the arid nature of the county, there is great potential for expansion of agriculture through harnessing of river tana. An analysis of local dynamics in conflicts over use. This user guide contains information about using the tana river basin file geodatabase and associated mapping tool. Kilifi county has reported crop failure, fewer agriculturalearning opportunities, and lower.
The main aim of this study was to see how elections and conflicts. It addresses the root causes of conflict and violent extremism ve, and reduces the allure of potentially radicalizing messages. Many of the layers are derived from nationallevel datasets and subsets to. Several crocodile population surveys and assessments have been done in kenya however only populations of the lower reaches of tana river have been significantly studied. Tapering of the pyramid a wide base and a narrow tip can be caused by high dropout, high population growth, or by recent growth in school entry rates. North africa can supply labor and oil, has high levels of unemployment, and suffers from poor economic conditions. Mobile library for rural kenyan youths globalgiving. The most recent white elephant project was the tana delta irrigation project tdip rice scheme, managed by the tana and athi river development authority tarda. The board has a secretariat responsible for execution of its decisions. A serological survey of the lower tana river valley. Mean annual rainfall over tana river district, through which most of the 625 km run, is around 400 mm gok. This number is expected to rise to over 100 students in 2014. The process of georeferencing essentially defines the.
Europe is the core economic region, and north africa is the peripheral economic region. A comparative study of communal conflict resolution in kenya. Photo file nation media group residents of tana river delta are counting the losses from the ongoing land clashes that have destabilised an already fragile economy. According to the provincial administration, an attack on reketa village on the night of 21 august left 31 women, 11 children and six men dead. Technical assistance report asian development bank. A villager armed with a spear walks past kenyan police sent to keep order following tribal clashes in kipao village in the tana river delta region. Request pdf on apr 4, 2019, patrick musembi and others published i am. Tarda agricultural farming in tana river delta, kenya description. Here, tsega etefa compares three such casesthe darfur conflict between arabs and nonarabs, the gumuz and oromo clashes in western oromia, and the oromopokomo conflict in the tana deltain order to offer a fuller picture of how ethnic violence in africa begins. Damming of river tana by the kenya electricity generation company kengen. Pdf the political conditions for local peacemaking. The river tana has tremendous effect on the climate, settlement patterns and economic activities within the county. The capital and largest town is hola sometimes known as galole.
After the kenyan intervention in somalia enough project. Additionally, the atpu police disclosed the identity of six kenyan nationals believed to be members of al shabab. In august 2012, a series of ethnic clashes between the orma and pokomo peoples of kenyas tana river district resulted in the deaths of at least fiftytwo people. Challenges facing pastoral farming systems in kenya livestock is an important livelihood resource in the pastoral farming systems of kenya. In the last few months, gabriel and tana river life foundation have been involved in the peace talks to mediate between the tribes. Thousands of people have fled their homes amid renewed clashes between rival communities in kenyas north eastern province, in which some 17 people were killed, according to officials. Villages in chara were destroyed in the ethnic clashes of 2012. Kenya red cross reports indicate that by 31st december 2015, floods and landslides mudslides had affected 40,121 hhs hhs approximately 240,726 people have been affected, and a total of 17,254 hhs approximately 103,524 people. The full pacific institute water conflict chronology, updated for 20102012, appears below. Tana river basin, kenya international water management. Clashes between the pokomo and orma tribes of tana river district in eastern kenya reached a climax in august of 2012.
It was founded as a private trust in 2005 by gabriel teo kian chong, a malaysian citizen resident in kenya. Historical roots are explored initially dating back to the 17th century migration that brought the orma and pokomo to the. Drought in kilifi, mandera, marsabit, tana river,turkana. Oxfam is providing overall oversight through management and technical backstopping lead in wash response activities. The school resumed in september 20 with 27 students, down from over 200. In tana river county violent clashes between the agriculturalist pokomo and the pastoralist orma communities since.
Tana river life foundation mobile library in the tana delta tana river life foundation tana river life foundation trlf is a charitable organization based in idsowe village in the tana delta in kenya. Fearing for their lives, the villagers fled before returning to rebuild their lives in the mid 20. Welcome to environmental justice atlas the ej atlas is a teaching, networking and advocacy resource. Jun 06, 2019 construction of phase 1 comprising a twostorey school building started on monday, november 26th, 2012 after a two month delay due to clashes that affected some parts of tana river district in august and september 2012. Oxfam together with aldef and wasda are responding to the floods in tana river. More than 50 individuals were killed in ethnic clashes in tana river district in coast province on august 2122, 2012. Tana river life foundation 1292014 human development assistance remodeled sponsorship scheme buyani secondary school delta education enhancement. The violence left 118 people dead and more than,500 displaced and another more than 30,000 people affected by the ethnopolitical clashes. The lower tana river basin stretches from mbalambala to kipini, passing through 625 km of semiarid landscapes. Trlf was invited to be part of the tana delta peace forum set up by the deputy county commissioners office, aimed at conflict resolution. This area of shrub and bush land with its highest point at 200m above sea level barely contributes to the rivers water flow.
Kie and unicef found it necessary to introduce the art of traditional story telling in early childhood development program. Elected leaders in tana river county have agreed to save governor hussein dado from being sent home. Tana river life foundation tana river life foundation. This would be the first library they will experience in their lives. The tdip represented a switch in policy from irrigation schemes with settlement and freeholders to new plans for economically motivated commercial estates with a few out. Political violence and the 20 elections in kenya hrw. Understanding the hydrological impacts of climate change. Drought conditions are expected to persist into the coming months and the number of severely food insecure people is expected to increase to 2.
High stakes political violence and the 20 elections in kenya map of kenya. At least 48 people have been killed in clashes between two communities in tana river county in kenyas coast province. All kenyas major rivers drain from the central highlands, divided by the rift into those flowing westwards into lake victoria and those flowing eastwards towards the indian ocean. Tana river district in order to implement a longerterm livelihood food secu rity intervention. Technical assistance report the views expressed herein are those of the consultant and do not necessarily represent those of adbs members, board of directors, management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. Leaflets warning residents to evacuate have also been found in some of the designated areas. Following the killing of muslim cleric aboud rogo mohammed, four individuals were killed in clashes between government police and protesters in mombasa on august 2728, 2012. Flooding in tana river district, mandera and katilu division displaced thousands of people and caused severe crop and livestock losses.
In tana river, residents feel the nationwide curfew is healthy as opposed to the ones they witnessed in the county in 2002 and 2012 during ethnic clashes. Media in category tana river kenya the following 27 files are in this category, out of 27 total. These populations are considered healthy and are inferred to be increasing in numbers based on reports from the communities in these areas. Tana river county is a county in the former coast province, kenya. Female residents of the tana river delta carry water in eastern kenya, june 2009. In 2014, there were clashes in marsabit county in northern kenya and ethnoreligious riots in mombasa cox et al. The con escalated to unparalleled armed violence with loss of life and. The new humanitarian dozens killed in tana river clashes. There were ethnic clashes in 2012 in tana river cox et al. Conflicts and politics in the tana delta, kenya an. Tana river district has a total area of 38,694km2 while garissa is 43,931km2. Estimated numbers of flood affected hhs in tana river and. Presently water abstraction permits from the tana river has sic been granted to various users for domestic, irrigation, power generation, etc.
Sera collected from the indigenous population of the tana river valley during the tana river expedition in 1976 were examined for neutralizing antibody to tanapox virus. Apr 01, 20 the kenya vision 2030 is the national longterm development blueprint that aims to transform kenya into a newly industrializing, middleincome country providing a high quality of life to all its citizens by 2030 in a clean and secure environment whilst making the country globally competitive. Violence in areas like marsabit county is persistent, ranging from economic boycotts and hate speech to unexplained deaths and small. Score enhances the organizational and technical capacity. Unrest, including murder and armed clashes linked primarily to gang activity, has been reported in the run up to. Curfew stirs dark memories for volatile lamu, tana river. Human rights, climate change, and climate policies pdf. The existing water quality studies such as 4 11 in lake tana used grab samples by considering the smaller portion of the lake near bahir dar town and near the entrance of one river. Status of lake tana commercial fishery, ethiopia dereje tewabe amhara regional agricultural research institute arari p. After the kenyan intervention in somalia by ken menkhaus january 2012 in this wednesday, dec. A hippo shot by jorma gallenkallela washes up on the bank of the tana river. The violence follows a massacre earlier in august of 52 people in a coastal village in tana river district. Aug 08, 2014 ethicl indigenous people ethicalsugar the likely impact of sugar cane plantations on pastoral livelihoods of the proposed tana river delta sugarcane project by tom odero ombogo the tana delta derives its name from the tana river in the tana river district.
I am involved in an ongoing research project about the conflict in. The tana river basin the tana river basin is one of the biggest river basins in kenya. The study focus on the middle and lower parts of tana river basin that are prone to recurrent floods. A local poverty monitoring system lpms for tana river. Turkana, baringo, kilifi, samburu, tana river and west pokot. A summary of recent events is provided in water brief 3 in this volume.