At least 18 people have died from these accidents which occurred in various places of the country. Efforts by Tanzania and Kenya to strengthen security around their boarders to arrest Somali bandits with high calibre weapons, appear to be completely ineffective. In last month some seven armed Somalis raided Masaai tribesmen at Kitumbaine in Ngorongoro district and stole about Tshs2.8 million. Maasai people were raided as they were on the way to Monduli district for an auction mart. Being ex-solders with sub machine guns, Somali bandits fired gun shoots to the air which scarred Maasai people who were in a lorry, and stole apart from money, several properties and other belongings whose amount could not be established.
Somali bandits continue to threaten lives of Maasai people in northern Tanzania.
Digodigo village in Loliando in Arusha region was attached mid April. During that incident two villagers were killed and several others were injured. For more than three years now, the Somali bandits have been launching attacks on villages in northern Tanzania, especially areas cross to the border of Kenya and Tanzania. In March a team of the FFU was dispatched by air and road in Ngorongoro District to hunt for several armed Somali bandits who killed a pastor. The Pastor was traveling with four European Missionaries to Ngorongoro, one of the famous Tanzania's National Park, on routine pastoral work.