Al Jazeera Correspondent - Not Yet Kenyan

Kenya's North Eastern Province, the country's third-largest region, borders Somalia and is exclusively inhabited by ethnic Somalis. Following Kenya's independence 50 years ago, it emerged as a distinctive administrative entity.<br /><br />Given to Kenya by British colonialists, the area has long been the site of ethnic tensions and violence targeting the Kenyan-Somali population - much of it ordered by Nairobi.<br /><br />Economically strangled by Nairobi's political and military might, life there is a struggle.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow is from this part of Kenya and has lived through the massacres and systematic intimidation by the Kenyan authorities.<br /><br />For Not Yet Kenyan he goes back to see how the region and his people have come through the pogroms and started to prosper only to find that al-Shabab has established a stronghold in the region and is now throwing it into a new chapter of turmoil.