Drought Pushes Nomads To Edge

Published on 14 December 2009

Oxfam, an aid agency, says the drought in east Africa is the worst in a decade (..) What is clear is what activists call the injustice of climate change: Africa is the continent most vulnerable to climate change, least responsible for causing it, and least able to afford the costs of managing it. (..) Nomadic pastoralists are less able than most because they are the poorest of the poor (..). For now, the Lokoki group is hanging on, partly thanks to aid from the United Nations World Food Programme.

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