Since August, the 24-year-old Maasai herder has lost more than 100 cattle and 300 goats to drought and the animals still in her care are too emaciated to produce milk. Kenya has been here before, most recently in 2022 when a record drought decimated livestock populations and plunged pastoralists in the East African country’s arid north and northeast into a hunger crisis. But now, as such climate disasters become more frequent, their impact is also spreading to areas that have traditionally not been deeply affected by drought such as Kajiado county, which borders the capital Nairobi and where Katanga lives. As the animals have grown weaker, their value has also shriveled, Katanga’s stepson Emmanuel Loshipae told Reuters.

Full report : Drought spreads beyond Kenya’s arid north, plunging herders into crisis.