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Scarcity Reveals an Inaccessible Excess
Posted by Inter Press Service: Miriam Gathigah on September 15th, 2013
Inter Press Service: For decades Zakayo Ekeno has walked Turkana County's arid land, herding his livestock, and his father's before that. Yet nothing about the persistently drought-stricken land in northern Kenya could have given him an indication of the wealth beneath it.
"I have asked myself many times whether anything good can come out of this godforsaken land," Ekeno says. Turkana is the most arid and poorest of Kenya's 47 counties and in 2011 almost 9.5 million people of the mainly nomad community here were...
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Putting Children in Harms Way
Posted by Inter Press Service: Miriam Gathigah on June 17th, 2011
Inter Press Service: It is late afternoon and the lone figure of nine-year-old Nancy Chepkemboi trudges home. To keep her head dry from the heavy rains, Chepkemboi has placed her books inside her shirt and used the polythene bag that is her school bag to cover her head.
The little girl cannot have her books wet because her teacher will send her home. But she also does not want to expose her head to the rain. With her teeth chattering from the cold, she says that for the past few days she has had to walk home in the...