Calm returned to Kawap area of Baragoi after two warring communities held peace meetings with their leaders and security officers.
Samburu county commander Francis Kumut said on Saturday that the people had taken up their usual day to day activities.
"We assure that Kawap and Baragoi are now peaceful as we have re-united the two communities that had differed over grazing fields leading to retaliatory attacks and raids," Kumut told the Star by phone.
He added that youths who took part in the attacks agreed to a peace deal.
Kumut said they held three peace meetings in Tum area, Kawap and Suyan.
He said a group of pastoralists from Rendile and Samburu East, who instigated the conflict, promised to work harmoniously with their host community of Turkanas.
The pastoralists took about 4,000 heads of cattle to the Turkanas' grazing land, but they promised to return to their homes when the rainy season begins.
Kumut said security patrols will continue.
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It was reported in 2014 that the upsurge in incidents of banditry and cattle rustling was greatly facilitated by readily available small arms and light weapons among pastoral communities.
The killing of more than 22 police officers and three civilians in Kapedo on the Baringo-Turkana border came barely two years after the killing of 40 others in Baragoi, Samburu county.
Police deployed in areas prone to cattle rustling are often outnumbered by raiders, who are better acquainted with the harsh terrain and have sophisticated equipment.
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