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Solar-powered water projects breathe life into Turkana farms

Droughts have been well documented in the Turkana region of Kenya since the 1960s, projected to occur every five years. However, the dry spells have become a yearly occurrence since the 1990s, with the most recent episode beginning in 2020 killing an estimated half a million livestock by mid-2022.

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