Drought shatters dreams of a better future for Kenya county Turkana
Five years after the discovery of oil, and four since a giant aquifer was found, drought has struck again, shattering the dreams of a different future for Turkana, a bone-dry region of dust and stone, home to mostly semi-nomadic livestock herders and lacking the most basic trappings of modernity.
A Turkana woman carries hides skinned from goats he has lost to a biting drought that has ravaged livestock population in nothern Kenya near Lokitaung in Turkana county on March 20, 2017. (AFP)
Turkana woman hold and launch dead animals they lost due to a biting drought that has ravaged livestock population in nothern Kenya near Lokitaung in Turkana county on March 20, 2017. (AFP)
Dead animals lies in the sun near Lokitaung in northern Kenya's Turkana county where a biting drought has ravaged livestock population on March 21, 2017. (AFP)
A young girl passes up a jerrycan filled with murky water trickling into a waterhole from underground rocks near Lokitaung in northern Kenya's Turkana county where a biting drought has ravaged livestock population on March 21, 2017. (AFP)
Women wait for food rations with their children at a health centre in northern Kenya's Turkana county where a biting drought has ravaged livestock population on March 21, 2017. (AFP)
Women arrive at a local health centre with their children to get food rations near Lokitaung in northern Kenya's Turkana county where a biting drought has ravaged livestock population on March 21, 2017. (AFP)
A Turkana woman waits with her children to get food rations near Lokitaung in northern Kenya's Turkana county where a biting drought has ravaged livestock population on March 21, 2017.(AFP)
Turkana woman hold and launch dead animals they lost due to a biting drought that has ravaged livestock population in nothern Kenya near Lokitaung in Turkana county on March 20, 2017. (AFP)
Turkana women carry dead animals they lost due to a biting drought that has ravaged livestock population in nothern Kenya near Lokitaung in Turkana county on March 20, 2017. (AFP)
