Biting famine kills livestock, claims important cultural practices

Some of the livestock belonging to pastoralists communities being hosted at Mugie Conservancy located Sossian area in Laikipia County. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard]

While the government may easily feed hungry and famine-stricken citizens, it may not compensate communities that have had cultural practices adversely affected by long spells of drought.

Circumcision is the most vital initiation of all rites of passage in the Maasai community where every male adolescent faces the cut at puberty.