I have just arrived in Kenya, and have had a warm welcome from my Nairobi colleagues. Over the next four weeks I’ll be visiting communities affected by the drought, and see the life-changing work...
ActionAid has today warned that women in Kenya are resorting to the life-threatening practice of binding their stomachs as hunger in East Africa escalates.
What is she trying to tell me?I ask Mr Ismail Galma, a special needs teacher at the Isiolo School for the Deaf. Six-year-old Ililhan is repeatedly gesturing towards her mouth and then points towards...
As we reach Camp-Garba Dispensary at the Catholic Mission of St Antioconear Isiolo town, there are more than a hundred women with their babies and young children waiting in the compound. From afar it...
Reason: fetching water, attending cattle, sharing maize with livestock The East Africa drought is affecting girls like Ambia and women like Halimu in all sorts of ways...
I had been told that Garufa village in eastern Kenya had been particularly hard-hit by the drought. This becomes all too clear as we approach the village which is littered with animal carcasses....
At the other end of the Tana River lies Mount Kenya, and that’s where I was today. But not on the lush, sodden windward side of the mountain which feeds the Tana. I was in the rain shadow of this...
During our days assessing the impact of the drought in Sericho District, we stayed in a town called Modogashe. It is a sleepy town that is divided by a large sand bank riddled with large craters....
We’ve driven approximately 250km from Isiolo to Sericho. Along the way the landscape gets drier and starker. A quarter of the way through our journey we are stopped by a herd of around 300 camels...
