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How drought is wreaking havoc across East Africa

How drought is wreaking havoc across East Africa.
A member of the Turkana community of Lolupe, north of Lodwar in the Turkana region, searches for gold specks.
A first downpour relieved pastoralists in the drought stricken Kenyan Turakana region after a twelve month span that pushed livestocks and communities to the brink of another looming humanitarian crisis.
A boy looks at a flock of dead goats in a dry land close to Dhahar in Puntland, northeastern Somalia.
Drought in the region has severely affected livestock for local herdsmen.
A young herder from the Samburu pastoral community in Kenya grazes his family cattle on the dwindling pasture on the plains of the Loisaba wildlife conservancy, where controlled livestock grazing from surrounding manyattas (Samburu settlements) is helping mitigate conflict over increasingly scarce water and pasture during a biting drought season.
A member of the Turkana community of Lolupe, north of Lodwar in the Turkana region, searches for gold specks.
A first downpour relieved pastoralists in the drought stricken Kenyan Turakana region after a twelve month span that pushed livestocks and communities to the brink of another looming humanitarian crisis.

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