Mandera residents move to Ethiopia in search of water

A boy walks along a dry seasonal dam in Banisa, Mandera County, March 15, 2021. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Locals in Mandera County's Lafey constituency are facing death and starvation after the only reliable water sources dried up.

Residents of Waranqara ward are now forced to trek for kilometres across the border into Ethiopia to quench their thirst and obtain some for domestic use.