Hundreds too weak as famine ravages region

These Dasanatch boy and girl from El-Maasich village in Illeret, North Horr, Marsabit County are among hundreds of starving Keyans in the border centre. Desperate parents have resorted to give their starving children a local brew in order to send them into sleep. The trading centre that is home to minority and marginalized Dasanatch community neighbours Ethiopia and rely on the foreigners for relief food. Photos By ALI ABDI/ STANDARD.

Yier Bokoch, 28, crawls out of his tiny hut in Nan'golei village in the border trading centre of Illeret but he is too weak to stand up.

His young wife Krowl and neighbours try to lift him up but he only takes three steps before he collapses on the ground after taking a feeble breath.