Defying orders to surrender illegal guns
Reuters AlertNet, UK - March 22, 2007

The severe drought in northern Kenya last year and cattle rustling have wiped out more than half of Halake Wario's livestock, but failed to dampen his determination to remain a pastoralist.

"Livestock keeping is part of my Borana tradition but it is risky and tough," Wario told IRIN in Marsabit district. "Many people have been killed in the past and livestock stolen, [leaving] many families poor, but I wish the same lifestyle for my children."

Most of the deaths occurred when raiders from cattle-rustling communities in neighbouring Garissa District came to steal livestock from Wario's community in Marsabit. Many of his fellow Boranas died trying to defend their livestock from the raiders ...