Acute water scarcity Mandera forces villagers to migrate to Somalia and Ethiopia

People in Bambo village have survived on this dam for decades. It has dried up due to the prolonged drought in Lafey constituency. [Ibrahim Adan Ali, Standard]

Locals in Lafey constituency, Mandera County, are staring at death and starvation after the only reliable water points dried up.

Residents from Waranqara ward are now forced to trek for kilometres as far as across the border in Ethiopia in search of water to quench their thirst and fetch some domestic use.