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A month on, famine still ravaging Garissa

Carcasses of livestock ravished by drought in Liboi sub-county in Garissa. [Abdimalik Ismail, Standard]

One month since President Uhuru Kenyatta declared the ongoing drought affecting parts of the country a national disaster, the government is yet to mitigate the effects. 

Locals have now resigned to fate as the situation has become dire with many of them losing their only source of livelihoods, which is their livestock.

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