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Women migrate with their belongings and a kid passes near the carcass of a donkey at Samburu district ,north central Kenya. Hunger struck the area due to lack of rain which has not been experienced for the past five months.  Residents have been forced to walk for days to look for water.

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In Search of Water

Women migrate with their belongings and a kid passes near the carcass of a donkey at Samburu district, north central Kenya. Hunger struck the area...

by JAMES NJUGUNA MWAURA in Kenya on 22/05/2009

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