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Stranded up North: A journalist's tale covering drought stricken Northern Kenya

Standard Group journalists push the vehicle after it lost the front grill due to the rough terrain from Isiolo town to Merti. [Wiberforce Okwiri, Standard]

A late afternoon phone call from my news editor, informing me that I had been selected to join the crew covering the drought in Northern Kenya found me in the middle of a crucial meeting in Nairobi’s CBD.

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