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Residents eat tree barks and leaves to survive severe drought

A woman feeds her baby with wild fruits at Chesakam village in Tiaty,Baringo county. (Photo: Kipsang Joseph/Standard)

Families in several Rift Valley counties are now eating wild fruits and tree barks to survive.

In West Pokot, locals are boiling leaves of trees which they use as vegetables even as the county records increased cases of malnutrition.

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