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When will our suffering end? Peasants ask as climate change reality sinks

CAPTION: A greenhouse project in rural Homa Bay County. Efforts are being made to address desertification through community initiatives.

An anxious Juma Ogonda trembled with fury at the mere sight of the rotting carcass of the last of his 250 goats.

In just under one month, the peasant farmer had lost hundreds of animals as drought persisted and pasture became scarce.

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