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Irrigation scheme offers ray of hope to residents

A sorghum farm at the Nanyee Irrigation Scheme, Loima, Turkana County. [File, Standard]

Until the discovery of oil a few years ago, the mention of Turkana would conjure up images of starving children and skeletal men and women sprawled on vast stretches of dry land simmering with heat.

But something is changing in Turkana, and no, it is not because of the oil.

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