Protocol on Transhumance

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Armed pastoralists hinder IGAD’s proposal of free across borders movement

An armed herder from a village in Baringo County drives his cattle to grazing fields. Armed pastoralists are threatening proposal by IGAD to have them move with their animals freely across borders. Photo: Anthony Langat/Al Jazeera. The proposal by Inter-Gov­ern­mental Au­thor­ity on De­vel­op­ment (IGAD) to allow easy migration of livestock and herders across borders is …

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IGAD’s seeks to stop pastoralists’ conflicts in Eastern Africa with new policy

Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a trading block which covers 5.2m km2 in the Horn of Africa with eight member countries is coming with a policy which if adopted by member states will allow easy migration of livestock and the people who tend them across borders. The policy dubbed Protocol on Transhumance had been reviewed …

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