This archive report was first published on 13 September 2019.
On 12 September 2019, President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni witnessed the signing of an agreement aimed at promoting sustainable peace and development among Turkana, Pokot, and Karamojong communities.
The programme, dubbed Cross-Border Sustainable Peace and Development, seeks to end hostilities among the three neighbouring communities and enhance development in the region by promoting non-violent interactions and collaborations.
The UN-supported intervention will be led by a ministerial committee co-chaired by Kenya and Uganda, with the goal of reducing tensions resulting from access to shared resources such as water and pasture.
Speaking during the launch ceremony in Moroto town, President Kenyatta welcomed the agreement, saying it will help spur development in the region, which has for many years suffered unnecessary communal conflicts.
"This programme, in cooperation with the UN, is a programme that will help all of us to ensure that we have peace, our people live together and also to enable us develop," the President said.
He noted that the peace and development programme will assist in transforming the border region from a conflict zone to an area of progress, development, and wealth.
President Museveni, who spoke in Kiswahili, thanked President Kenyatta for the various reforms that have enhanced cross-border trade and people-to-people interactions between Kenya and Uganda.
Earlier, the two leaders commissioned the 2.3 million cubic litres Kebebe dam, a community water point constructed by the Ugandan government at a cost of 2.5 million US dollars.
