About 5,000 Kenyan Pokot tribesmen are camping in hastily set up villages in Uganda's northeastern Karamoja region, Uganda's semi official 'New Vision' newspaper reported on Sunday. The group of farmers, with their herds and families, have "joined their cousins" in the northeastern region but officials are worried that the influx "might result in ethnic killings" following the most recent one in which about 140 people were killed, the paper said. "The Pokot are fleeing the drought in Kenya and have joined their cousins in Karamoja in search of food, grazing grounds and water", the chairman of Moroto district, Terrence Achia, was quoted as saying.
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