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Kenyatta Oloitiptip stands atop one of the dykes as he explains stormwater movement from the hills of Ol-Donyo-Orok down the Olgulului plains and into Tanzania. [Gardy Chacha, Standard]
The first day of October 2022 in Ng’atatoek, Kajiado County, was dry and hot. You could turn a whole three-sixty-degrees and barely catch a glimpse of green: it was all hues of brown.
It was the height of the 2022 drought. By then, according to Gideon Parsanga, the sub-chief of the location, herders within his area of jurisdiction had lost over 7,000 animals to the drought between June and October.
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