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Abdirizak Gabow, 63, gathers goat carcasses from the surrounding bush into a cluster to be burned later for sanitation purposes in Hawara village near Rhamu town, on January 21, 2026. [AFP]
In drought-hit northeastern Kenya, villagers have been forced to drag their dead livestock to distant fields for burning to keep the stench of death and scavenging hyenas away from their homes.