An elephant in the Amboseli National Park in Kenya wards off a Kenya Wildlife Service helicopter during an aerial elephant census in Kenya. © Will Swanson for Al Jazeera English
A young Maasai herder brings his cows to his boma (homestead) for the evening. Human population increases in Kenya has led to competition between cattle and wildlife for pasture and water. © Will Swanson for Al Jazeera English
Big Life Ranger Joel Yimia runs his tracker dog Didi through a training excercise in the Chyulu Hills. Dogs have been invaluable in tracking and arresting poachers who often flee on foot. © Will Swanson for Al Jazeera English
Mandera town is home to a large population of ethnic Somali Kenyans with family and business ties across the border in Somalia. © Will Swanson for The Washington Post and The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting
Many students at Mandera Academy suffered psychological trauma following the killing of five teachers from their school. Some students could not eat or sleep following the attack last year. © Will Swanson for The New York Times
Students walk to class at the Mandera Academy, a private school in Mandera town that lost five teachers in an ambush on a bus by the Somali insurgent group al Shabaab. © Will Swanson for The New York Times
Bilal Abdi, 9 was a student in Violet Muranga’s class last year. “We learned songs like ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’, ” she said. © Will Swanson for The New York Times
A young woman draws water from a well in the town of Liboi on the border of Kenya and Somalia. The region has seen a spate of cross border attacks by al Shabaab militants targeting police posts and civilian infrastructure. © Will Swanson for Al Jazeera Magazine
A Turkana woman in traditional clothing pauses for a portrait at a small village in north east Kenya. Despite a boost in natural resources revenue, maternal mortality remains high in the region due to poor access to health services. © Will Swanson for Al Jazeera Magazine
Members of the Turkana tribe wait outside a mobile ‘container clinic’ operated by the charity African Medical Research Centre in Turkana, northern Kenya. The clinic moves with the nomadic tribe to provide basic health services. © Will Swanson for Al Jazeera Magazine
A medical officer with the charity African Medical Research Institute conducts a check up on a young Turkana resident at a mobile clinic in north Kenya. © Will Swanson for al Jazeera Magazine
Women of the Turkana tribe in north Kenya must travel up to 80km by foot to receive health care and to give birth. © Will Swanson for al Jazeera Magazine
A Kenya police reservist walks through a flock of sheep and goats near the border with Somalia. The Kenyan government is equipping a local paramilitary force in its border areas with Somalia to bolster its security in the face of a growing al Shabaab insurgency. © Will Swanson for Foreign Policy Magazine
A Kenya police reservist poses with his 30 year old ex-army rifle issued to him by the government. The Kenyan government is equipping a local paramilitary force in its border areas with Somalia to bolster its security in the face of a growing al Shabaab insurgency. © Will Swanson for Foreign Policy Magazine
The paramilitary force are drawn from local goat herders and retirees, and are given a monthly allowance of (equivalent) USD100 to patrol remote areas along Kenya’s porous border. The Kenyan government is equipping a local paramilitary force in its border areas with Somalia to bolster its security in the face of a growing al Shabaab insurgency. © Will Swanson for Foreign Policy Magazine