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Turkana and West Pokot residents starving, lose hundreds of livestock

Philomena Elimo skillfully enters a well to fetch water at the bottom of it for her camels in Kerio, Turkana County. [Photo: Kevin Tunoi/standard]

Hundreds of livestock in Turkana County have died with thousands of people facing starvation as the drought intensifies.

The drought has left sheep, goats, donkeys and camels emaciated while others have been dropping dead as they struggle to access pasture.

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