Pandemic decimates livelihoods of the Maasai

A Maasai woman queues for food aid in Nashulai Maasai Conservancy in Narok county on July 14, 2020. [Thomson Reuters Foundation]

For more than 50 years, Loiman Letolo, 70, has peddled her colourful beaded necklaces and bracelets to safari-goers at the entrance gates to Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve.

As the annual "Great Migration" of millions of wildebeest, zebras and gazelles into the Mara's vast savannah gets underway, Letolo would normally be earning $50 a day from the droves of  binocular-wielding tourists in their open-top jeeps.