Community leaders of South Sudan and Kenya have been meeting to tackle the rising insecurity caused by tension along their common border, APA can report from Juba on Tuesday.Leaders of the Turkana ethnic group and those of South Sudan said the talks are geared toward addressing the growing animosity between peoples who live on opposite sides of their border. 

Turkana cattle herders are at the heart of the dispute over grazing land north of Kenya.

The latest round of talks comes days after an incident in which a South Sudanese militia group shot a military vehicle belonging to the Kenyan army, destroying its windscreen and other incident involving the shooting dead of two locals by unidentified gunmen.

These incidents took place at Kenya’s Nadapal crossing into neighbouring South Sudan. 

Turkana County Commissioner Jacob Ouma said both incidents are being treated as serious security concerns which prompt the Kenyan defense forces to be put on alert. 

Meanwhile sources say a dispute between Kenya and South Sudan along Nadapal-Nakodok stretch has led to tensions on both side. 

Some blame the dispute for a delay in completing works on the Lokichoggio-Nadapal highway.

According to witnesses, Chinese road construction workers have been repeatedly shot at while working along the highway.