Namanga border woes: Operations stall over killing of Kenyan clearing agent

A five-day standoff at the Namanga one-stop border post disrupted cross-border trade between Kenya and Tanzania. The crisis began on November 2 after reports that a Kenyan clearing and forwarding agent had been killed by unknown assailants and buried in a bush on the Tanzanian side. The alleged killing sparked protests and heightened tensions in the border town.