Nomadic livestock herders in East Africa's drylands have endured climate variability for millennia, driving their relentless search for water and pasture in some of the world's most inhospitable terrain. But their resilience is being severely tested by climate change, forcing a rethink to traditional wisdom passed down for generations. HUNGER WARNINGSuch a crisis is already brewing in Kenya's pastoral country to the north and over its borders in neighbouring arid regions. "It doesn't rain like it once did," said Nandura Pokodo, at a dusty livestock market in Merille, an outpost in Kenya's northern pastoralist heartland. The text messages have also helped Samuel Lkiangis Lekorima protect not just his livestock, but the safety of his community.

Source: Daily Nation May 24, 2019 11:54 UTC