At least eight people were on Saturday, November 14 morning killed in an early attack in Malkamari, on the Ethiopian side of the Kenya-Ethiopia Border.
It is reported that gunmen raided the village while residents were asleep, killing men, women and children in the attack. The incident comes amid continuing security concerns and clashes in the wider border area.
This comes a day after Marsabit Governor Mohamud Ali reported that at least two Kenyans had been killed, 22 others wounded by stray bullets. The county boss also said that a whooping 10,000 people had been displaced by fighting in neighboring Ethiopia.
The governor further said that a government-led rapid needs assessment had estimated that more than 50,000 Ethiopians had crossed into Kenya’s Marsabit County seeking safety from fighting in the Oromo and Somali areas of southern Ethiopia.
“The human cost of this conflict is already devastating,” Gov. Mohamud Ali said. “We are particularly alarmed by the public health risks arising from overcrowded shelters, shortages of essential medicines, worsening nutritional conditions and confirmed cases of measles and rubella.”
He further warned that unexploded military weapons falling near residential areas and public facilities posed serious risks to civilians.
The violence erupted October 18, 2026 after officials from Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State opened a new administrative office and raised their regional flag in an area of Moyale claimed by Oromia authorities. following a dispute over a regional flag and the killing of a 13-year-old girl. It has since spread to several districts along Ethiopia’s disputed Oromia-Somali boundary, where longstanding territorial tensions continue to threaten communities on both sides of the border.
Violence erupted on October 18, 2026, after officials from Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State opened a new administrative office and raised their regional flag in an area of Moyale claimed by Oromia militias. A 13-year-old ethnic Oromo girl was killed in this clash. Some claimed she was killed in crossfire, while others claim she was killed after she attempted to remove the hoisted flag. The Oromia side also accused the Somali regional forces of denying the families access to her body.
Members of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces intervened and stopped the fighting. However, this did not halt the violence as the conflict continued for a week.
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