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Namoruarcngan village, North Turkana, Kenya. 19 July 2011

A child drinking muddy water from a hole dug on a dry river bed.
It?s been over a year since it last rained in the area. Children and the elderly are suffering the worst consequences of the drought.

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Suffering spreads as Kenyan drought deepens

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Namoruarcngan village, North Turkana, Kenya. 19 July 2011

A child drinking muddy water from a hole dug on a dry river bed.
It?s been over a year since it last rained in the area. Children and the elderly are suffering the worst consequences of the drought.

A child drinks muddy water from a hole dug in a dry river bed in North Turkana, Kenya, in late July 2011. While most news coverage has been devoted to hundreds of thousands of Somalis fleeing both Muslim extremist violence as well as famine in their country, northern Kenya has also been hard hit by drought.
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Nakurio village, Turkana district, Kenya. 18 July 2011
Elizabeth Ekales, aged 45, comes from Kairama, a village near Nakurio, where the Kenya Red Cross Society, partnering with UN agencies such as UNICEF and the WFP, is registering the local population for food distribution.

Elizabeth Ekales, 45, of the Turkana tribe comes from Kairama, a village near Nakurio, where the Kenya Red Cross Society, partnering with UN agencies, is registering the local population for food distribution.

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Kokuro village, Turkana, Kenya. 23 July 2011

The livestock owned by this family was rustled by the Merylle, a nomadic people from Ethiopia.

Kokuro village, in Turkana, Kenya, is located near the border with Ethiopia. According to photojournalist Francesco Zizola, the drought is affecting only part of the region, but such unevenness has triggered another tragedy: livestock-rustling. Communities badly affected by the drought start looking for new pastures for their goatherds, camels or cattle. They then attack and try to uproot the communities already settled in the occupied areas.

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Kenya/Ethiopia, near the Ethiopian border. 22 July 2011

Nalemsokon village. Doctors without borders (MSF) staff screening children to assess  their level of malnutrition. The most severily malnourished children will receive therapeutic food treatment.

Doctors Without Borders staff screen children to assess their level of malnutrition in the border region of Kenya and Ethiopia.

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Nakangae village, North Turkana, 19 July 2011

An elederly woman too weak to stand on her feet after days without food or water.
It?s been over a year since it last rained in the area. Children and the elderly are suffering the worst consequences of the drought.

An elderly woman is too weak to stand on her feet after days without food or water in Nakangae village, North Turkana.

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Kakalel village, Turkana district, Kenya. 18 July 2011
Camels and dromedaries are watered thanks to a water pump installed in the village and still functioning. Most livestock, like goats and cattle, have died as a consequence of the heavy drought. The villagers are forced to fast even for 3 days in a row or feed themselves on wild berries. The last time it rained was in April, although the long rainy season in Kenya lasts normally from March to May.

Camels and dromedaries are watered thanks to a water pump installed and still functioning in Kakalel village.

Noor / NOOR
Ethiopia, Nalemsokon village, near the Kenyan border. 21 July 2011 The inhabitants of the villages in the same area as Nalemsokon have been heavily affected by the consequences of the drought. There have been many episodes of livestock-rustling in the area and pastures have been occupied by foreign herdsmen desperate to save their cattle from starvation.??

Villages near Nalemsokon, Ethiopia, have been heavily affected by the consequences of the drought.

Francesco Zizola / NOOR via Redux
On the Western shore of Lake Turkana, Turkana district, Kenya. 17 July 2011

The inhabitants of the villages near the lake have increased their fishing activities in order to survive the famine. But the surface area of the Turkana lake is shrinking and the number of fish has decreased. Fishermen complain that there isn?t enough fish to meet the need for food of local communities.

The inhabitants of the villages near Lake Turkana have increased their fishing activities in order to survive the famine.

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Turkana district, Kenya. 16 July 2011
A Turkana man walks on the dried bed of the Turkwel river. Rains have failed for more than one year in the area.

A Turkana man walks on the dried bed of the Turkwel river.

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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) screening the local population in Turkana, Kenya in order to assess the level of malnutrition among children

Doctors Without Borders staff screen the local population in order to assess the level of malnutrition among children, in Meyan village, Kenya. The most severely malnourished children will receive therapeutic food treatment.
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Francesco Zizola / NOOR
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