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Kenya on the brink: video

In the Kajiado district in southern Kenya, the rains have not come for the fourth year in a row. Drought, rising food prices and climate change are combining to threaten the lives of the Maasai herders who call Kajiado home. This video tells their story.

At the Coalface of Climate Change

Recently I was privileged to spend a few days in the company of a remarkable man. I first met Kenny Matampash in Kenya in May. A member of the pastoralist Maasai people, he runs a local NGO – Neighbours Initiative Alliance – that provides support to his fellow Maasai.

Kenya’s drought: media coverage

Many parts of Kenya have now been without rain for three years.

Concern responds to mounting Ethiopian crisis

23 October 2009

Kenya’s “lush land dries up”

There are some harrowing reports coming from Kenya about its worsening drought.

“Climate change is here”

Journalist John Vidal recently visited Moyale, Kenya, with Concern to see how the prolonged drought has been affecting the communities there.

A typical day for Gloria

Gloria lives in Mathare Valley, Nairobi, Kenya, one of the largest and most dangerous slums in the world.

Forced to eat pig food: Kenya crisis

People in Kenya’s slums are starving. As reported by the Daily Nation, some of them are taking to eating pig food to stay alive.

Searching for water

I had always assumed that traveling through a desert would be hot, dusty and disorientating. Last week I found out that yes, all of the above is true.