In recent months, retaliatory attacks between rival tribes have raged in Tana River District, leaving more than 100 people dead.

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The tensions and rivalry that resulted in the violence have been ongoing for decades in the Tana River area, said Joseph Kitur, deputy provincial police officer in Kenya's Coast Province.

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The death toll from communal fighting over land and water in the past three weeks between the pastoral Orma and the agrarian Pokomo tribes along the Tana river in Kenya rose to at least 112.

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