Hofmann moved into her mother-in-law's " manyatta " ( compound ) and learned to live as a Samburu woman, fetching wood and water.
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The " Manyatta " strategy is seen as playing a key role in ending the insurgency, though the Somali government may have also decided that the potential benefits of a war simply was not worth the cost and risk.
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East Africa scholar Alex de Waal described the result as " a military assault upon the entire pastoral way of life, " as enormous numbers of livestock were confiscated or killed, partly to deny their use by the guerrillas and partly to force the populace to abandon their flocks and move to a " Manyatta ".
