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600,000 in dire need of food as drought bites in Turkana

A starved woman getting a meal. [Picture, Standard]

Lolem Ekiru, 43, a herdsman in Kibish, Turkana North, is facing starvation and so are his neighbours.

The pastoralists in most parts of Turkana County have started losing livestock to the drought and are now in dire need of food relief.

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