‘If they die, we all die’: Drought kills in Kenya

Mohamed Mohamud, a ranger from the Sabuli Wildlife Conservancy, looks at the carcass of a giraffe that died of hunger near Matana Village, Wajir County, Kenya, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. As world leaders address a global climate summit in Britain, drought has descended yet again in northern Kenya, the latest in a series of climate shocks rippling through the Horn of Africa. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Kenyan women of Somali origin wait with their containers for a water distribution from the government near Kuruti, in Garissa County, Kenya Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. Kenya’s government has declared a national disaster in 10 of its 47 counties. The UN says more than 2 million people are severely food insecure. And with people trekking farther in search of food and water, observers warn that tensions among communities could sharpen. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Herder Yusuf Abdullahi walks past the carcasses of his forty goats that died of hunger in Dertu, Wajir County, Kenya Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. “If they die, we all die,” he says. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

The daughter of a herder family stands in the doorway of their hut near Kuruti, in Garissa County, Kenya Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. “We do not have a spare planet in which we will seek refuge once we have succeeded in destroying this one,” the executive director of East Africa’s Intergovernmental Authority on Development, Workneh Gebeyehu, said last month while opening a regional early warning climate center in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.(AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Herders supply water from a borehole to give to their camels near Kuruti, in Garissa County, Kenya Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. Wildlife have begun to die, too, says the chair of the Subuli Wildlife Conservancy, Mohamed Sharmarke. “The heat on the ground tells you the sign of starvation we’re facing,” he says. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

The children of herders walk past cattle carcasses in the desert near Dertu, Wajir County, Kenya Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The withered carcasses of livestock are reminders that drought has descended yet again in northern Kenya. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Rangers from the Sabuli Wildlife Conservancy supply water from a tanker for wild animals in the conservancy in Wajir County, Kenya Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. Experts warn that such climate shocks will become more common across Africa, which contributes the least to global warming, but will suffer from it most. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

A boy stands near the rotting carcass of a camel that that died of hunger which people had burned to stop the bad smell, in Belif, Garissa county, Kenya Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. Kenyatta was among the African leaders speaking at the global climate summit as they urged more attention and billions of dollars in financial support for the African continent. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)