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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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