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Women, children eat wild leaves as biting drought persists

Qabale Roba 80 year old adds water on Oleifera leaves or Moringa for lunch to be eaten with Ugali at a village in Marsabit County. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

In the blistering scrubland of Dub Goba Village in Marsabit County, where the horizon bends under a merciless, unrelenting sun, the traditional sounds of pastoral life have been replaced by a desperate stoney silence.

After a season of failed rains, the agro-pastoralist community is deep in the throes of a ravaging drought described as the worst in decades and which has reduced their livestock to scattered carcasses.

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