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Pastoralists set for major export boon in new plan

Kenya is set to build Africa’s largest livestock quarantine export processing zone in what is likely to more than double the income of pastoralist families.

Sitting on an estimated 9,000 hectares, the Tana River Livestock Export Quarantine is expected to be a boon to thousands of pastoralists who have helplessly watched as their animals are perennially decimated by drought.

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