Drought and Famine in Kenya

[Omollo]

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The situation is dire.

The "usual" areas that suffer food and water shortages have now been joined by others.


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[MOON Ki]

I wrote this in October last year:   http://www.nipate.org/index.php?topic=3556.msg25549#msg25549

Looks like things are only getting worse, although I was told that: http://www.nipate.org/index.php?topic=3622.msg26243#msg26243

The Daily Nation, in a passionate editorial, writes that:

However, we need long-term measures to mitigate the predictable cyclic drought that often hits the country. 

http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Editorial/Act-on-ravaging-drought/440804-3512674-7q7p6n/

That's the usual statement.   Then all will be forgotten as soon as this one too is over.  The editorial notes that:

Our challenge, though, is the inability to plan for the hard times. Weather forecasts warned a while ago that rains would to fail and that should have jolted the State to put in place contingency measures to mitigate the attendant hardships. Nothing was done.

[Omollo]

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[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

Are the El Molo people still around or have they vanished in one of these famines?  To think they had survived centuries before independence.

[Omollo]

I am not sure. At this rate some of these tribes will disappear and we would not be the wiser for years. I think the Dorobo must have perished along the way. I will ask Murkomen if they spared one or two.

Are the El Molo people still around or have they vanished in one of these famines?  To think they had survived centuries before independence.

[MOON Ki]

Are the El Molo people still around or have they vanished in one of these famines?  To think they had survived centuries before independence.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2713263/Is-Africas-bravest-tribe-The-El-Molo-battle-crocodiles-tiny-canoes-used-eat-HIPPO-live-45.html

Their actual numbers seem to be hard to determine, with figures given that range from 300 to 3300.

[Omollo]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2713263/Is-Africas-bravest-tribe-The-El-Molo-battle-crocodiles-tiny-canoes-used-eat-HIPPO-live-45.html

Their actual numbers seem to be hard to determine, with figures given that range from 300 to 3300.

They are in danger especially if they own any land. That is a fairly small number for the police to clear out on the pretext that they are "cattle rustlers".

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

Are the El Molo people still around or have they vanished in one of these famines?  To think they had survived centuries before independence.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2713263/Is-Africas-bravest-tribe-The-El-Molo-battle-crocodiles-tiny-canoes-used-eat-HIPPO-live-45.html

Their actual numbers seem to be hard to determine, with figures given that range from 300 to 3300.

That's fewer than Southern White rhinoceros.

Ethiopia has been doing projects on Omo river.  Combine that with climate change and they might be gone in a generation.
 
The latest is the Gibe 3 dam.

https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2016-12-17/ethiopia-opens-massive-gibe-3-hydroelectric-dam-on-omo-river

[patel]

sad story. While Kenyans are starving Uhuru and Bob Godec determined to sell them crop dusters for billions of shillings