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State offers to buy livestock from drought hit West Pokot families

Pokot children try to assist one of the cows that lost strength near Wei Wei farmers' irrigation scheme in West Pokot County. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

The government has announced plans to purchase and slaughter livestock in West Pokot to avert deaths from prolonged drought.

The animals will be slaughtered and meat supplied to locals that may be starving as a result of the drought that has forced many to migrate to Uganda in search of pasture and water.

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