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Sat 02 Feb 2006Drought pushes millions of Kenyans to brink of famine
KENYA: The failure of the annual rains over three years has provoked a food crisis, writes Rob Crilly, in Wajir
The paediatric ward is full. Mothers from across this corner of northeastern Kenya have trekked to the dusty town of Wajir carrying skeletal babies in search of help. Every one of the beds holds a mother clutching a bag of bones hooked up to a life-sustaining drip.
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