The Turkana, a nomadic pastoralist group based in northern Kenya, have made a number of recent demands on the nation’s government. Speaking at law review hearings in their local towns, as part of the nationwide ongoing constitutional review, Turkana residents called for an increased military presence in their region to provide protection against cattle raiders from neighboring Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda. Turkana herders attribute a large number of people’s deaths and cattle losses to these attacks. They also objected to the presence of 90,000 refugees settled on their land without consent, and to the government’s failure to provide Turkana nomads with national identification cards.
