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Over 6,000 Kenyan pastoralists flee to Uganda due to drought

KITALE, KENYA: Over 6,000 pastoralists from Pokot County have migrated to the neighbouring Uganda in search of pastures and water as drought ravages the area threatening lives of hundreds of residents.

Kacheliba Member of Parliament Mr Mark Lomunakol said that subsistence farmers in the county have lost 70 per cent of their crop to drought and that grazing fields have also dried up.

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