Hannah's blog from the East Africa drought

Mohamed Bilala, ActionAid Kenya’s Warehouse Supervisor, is showing me around ActionAid’s food warehouse in Isiolo town.  It is a familiar sight.  In the first room is bag after bag of maize...

I’ve visited Isiolo livestock market three days running and on every day, I’ve found it empty.  Today, the place where pastoralists usually come to buy, sell and trade their animals has a mere...

Today we are in Sericho. My Kenyan colleagues tell me that this is where I will see the drought at its worst. Local people say they have not seen rain here since 2008. ActionAid, working with the...