Severe Competition for Natural Resources the Cause of Conflicts.

(From The Nation (Kenya) - AAGM)

Byline: Joseph Kopejo

The recent so-called tribal clashes in Laikipia District and other areas in the Rift Valley are, in fact, a vicious struggle over the dwindling natural resources - land, pastures or water. That these conflicts have pitted different communities against one another is just a coincidence.

What we have been witnessing is only the latent phase of a major conflict. All the clashes so far have been over one natural resource or the other. Politicians have only been the match that ignites the fire. And to start a fire, surely you need more than a match.

The potential of more than 85 per cent of …