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. •Photoblog: Photojournalist haunted by documenting famine in Africa
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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, 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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Doctors Without Borders staff screen children to assess their level of malnutrition in the border region of Kenya and Ethiopia.
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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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Camels and dromedaries are watered thanks to a water pump installed and still functioning in Kakalel village.
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Villages near Nalemsokon, Ethiopia, have been heavily affected by the consequences of the drought.
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The inhabitants of the villages near Lake Turkana have increased their fishing activities in order to survive the famine.
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A Turkana man walks on the dried bed of the Turkwel river.
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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. •Photoblog: Photojournalist haunted by documenting famine in Africa