Violence flares in northern Kenya as pressure mounts on villagers

Turkana tribeswomen collect water from a dry riverbed in Illemi Triangle, Kenya March 25, 2019. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

MAISA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya's Chief Eipa Choro, 74, remembers when battles were fought with knives and spears. But now newcomers with far more firepower are taking lives in his region at the remote northern edge of the Rift Valley.

Instability in neighbouring Ethiopia and South Sudan are spilling over the border into the disputed territory known as the Ilemi Triangle, residents said. A growing population, changing weather patterns, and displacement caused by conflict are all crowding more people and livestock into their arid scrublands.