{"id":3076,"date":"2014-06-23T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T04:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2014-06-23T11:52:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T04:52:03","slug":"20-die-as-clans-fight-in-kenyas-wajir-mandera-county-border-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/20-die-as-clans-fight-in-kenyas-wajir-mandera-county-border-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"20 die as clans fight in Kenya’s Wajir-Mandera county border dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least 20 people were killed in renewed clan violence on the Wajir-Mandera county border on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

According to Tarbarj OCPD David Kirui five other people were injured in the fighting. Thirty five houses were also burnt down.
\nOnly a month ago, another 13 people were killed in violence between the two rival clans.<\/p>\n

The latest round of clashes could have been triggered by the killing of two university students at Rhamu. The two were travelling from a farm in Mandera when they were attacked.<\/p>\n

Mandera County Commissioner Mr Michael Tialal confirmed the fighting but could not divulge further details, only saying the killings happened in Wajir.<\/p>\n

Wajir County Commissioner Mr Naftally Mugatia and Police Commander Philip Chirchir drove to the flashpoint but they could not be reached for comment…<\/p>\n

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At least 20 people were killed in renewed clan violence on the Wajir-Mandera county border on Saturday night. According to Tarbarj OCPD David Kirui five other people were injured in the fighting. Thirty five houses were also burnt down. Only a month ago, another 13 people were killed in violence between the two rival clans. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4695,4688,430,1489,1491,1492,1493,257,1494,254,1490],"class_list":["post-3076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east-africa","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-killing-of-two-university-students","tag-mandera","tag-michael-tialal","tag-naftally-mugatia","tag-news","tag-police-commander-philip-chirchir","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wajir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}