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Published : September 11, 2009 |
Author : user_#a0b
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By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
LOKORI, Kenya
— The sun somehow feels closer here, more intense, more personal. As
Philip Lolua waits under a tree for a scoop of food, heat waves dance
up from the desert floor, blurring the dead animal carcasses sprawled
in front of him.So much of his green pasture land has turned to dust. His once mighty
herd of goats, sheep and camels have died of thirst. He says his
3-year-old son recently died of hunger. And Mr. Lolua does not look to
be far from death himself.
“If nobody comes to help us, I will die here, right here,” he said,
emphatically patting the earth with a cracked, ancient-looking hand. A
devastating drought is sweeping across Kenya, killing livestock, crops
and children. It is stirring up tensions in the ramshackle slums where
the water taps have run dry, and spawning ethnic conflict in the
hinterland as communities fight over the last remaining pieces of
fertile grazing land.
Jehad Nga for The New York Times
An elderly woman is given water in the Turkana region of Kenya. Many of
the elderly are too weak and sick to feed themselves or drink.
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