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State offers to buy livestock from drought hit West Pokot families

Children in Pokot try to assist a cow that collapsed due to hunger near Wei Wei irrigation scheme. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

The government has announced plans to purchase and slaughter livestock in West Pokot to avert deaths from prolonged drought.

The animals will be slaughtered and meat supplied to locals that may be starving as a result of the drought that has forced many to migrate to Uganda in search of pasture and water.

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