Kenya sends troops to a troubled region bordering Ethiopia.

Following an outbreak of ethnic violence in the volatile northern county of Marsabit, Kenya has deployed thousands of police and other security forces.

Drought, political instigation, and the availability of weaponry from Ethiopia, according to the administration, are to blame for the rising instability in the border area.

For the next month, an overnight curfew has been imposed, and a disarmament exercise is set to commence.

Cattle rustling has expanded considerably in Marsabit, which is one of the worst-affected locations in the Horn of Africa due to the drought.

Kenya's interior minister announced that police had seized a huge quantity of guns and ammunition smuggled from southern Ethiopia, where federal forces are fighting Oromo Liberation Army insurgents.