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IT’S TIME TO RETHINK IN DEALING DROUGT – WAJIR LEADERS TO ACTS

  As you drive around the outskirts of Wajir County you come across a surprising account. the tails of impacts of droughts, images of livestock carcasses, anguished faces of the elderly, despaired women and children left behind at home(a structured makeshifts), the sun hitting you directly making one to think if you are inside incubators, the sun baked remotes of villages gives an aura of hopelessness – a dare need of intervention. Drought and famine is almost becoming a cliché in Kenya. Despite the existing drought early warning systems we are given, drought disaster response mechanisms and coping strategies remain miserably wanting. More often, drought and famine situations degenerate into dire humanitarian crises before any quick response from all the stakeholders. in North Eastern Kenya drought is more vicious phenomena that years in years out hit back leaving a trail of pain and worry , it’s a struck of despair that needs a more tackling – with pastoral communities h...