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In pictures: Kenya drought


Vet

In Takaba, a small town 75km (47 miles) from the Ethiopian border, privately owned vet pharmacies give animals a better chance of surviving drought.

Community animal health worker Mohammed Abdulai Abdi serves around 3,000 herdsmen, sometimes travelling for several days on foot with a medicine pack, even to Ethiopia.

"Many pastoralists have little knowledge about how to cure ailments. I have saved a lot of animals with basic medicines from my pharmacy."

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