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Save Mandera and Garissa residents from hunger pangs

A herder fetches water for his Camels at Darwed water point in Mandera West Sub County on March 14, 2021. Drought has hit Mandera County that has left livestock dead. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

In the Northern Frontier Districts of Kenya, it doesn't rain; it pours.

In December 2019, parts of Mandera and Garissa counties came under a desert locusts invasion after swarms flew into the area from Somalia and Ethiopia.

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