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Brief

24 March 2025

Local Self-Governance on the Somalia–Kenya Border

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Thirty years of civil war, insurgency, and counterinsurgency in Somalia and neighbouring northeastern Kenya have hollowed out state services and left borderland communities beleaguered. Yet in this apparently ‘ungoverned’ space, local self-governance persists. Citizen-led reflection shows how communities are repairing the social and physical damage wrought by violence, organising basic services, and providing public goods.

Patta Scott-Villiers
Patta Scott-Villiers
Kenya Somalia Sub Saharan Africa
Brief

19 December 2023

Community Solutions to Insecurity Along the Uganda–Kenya Border

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

In the Karamoja and Turkana border regions of Uganda and Kenya, there is widespread violence including armed robbery, rape, and human rights abuses, yet community complaints about failures of governance remain largely unaddressed. This Policy Briefing highlights how different insecurities reinforce one another in ways exacerbated by the international border.

Karamoja–Turkana Community Research Team
Promoting Peaceful Pastoralism: Preventing and resolving violence linked to cross-border transhumance and environmental change in Africa Kenya Sub Saharan Africa Uganda
Opinion

18 January 2023

Let’s get back to the drawing board on insecurity in Karamoja

Simon Peter Longoli
Promoting Peaceful Pastoralism: Preventing and resolving violence linked to cross-border transhumance and environmental change in Africa Uganda