Saturday, September 19, 2009

Dry

For Kenyan nomads, the end of a way of life (click on image for video)

The nomadic pastoralists who live in the arid scrubland on the Kenya-Somalia border are being forced out of their traditional way of living by a succession of worsening droughts. Peter Beaumont travelled to the border town of Elwak to meet the desperate families abandoning the ranger lands for an equally uncertain future living by the road.

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