UN report shows hottest seven years on record

A Standard journalist photographs a carcass of a cow that died due to drought at Naudo in Tiaty, Baringo County. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

With temperatures rising by the day in several parts of the country, peculiar events continue to manifest as people seek refuge in cooler and greener places. The past few months have seen livestock increasingly migrating in search of pasture, marking the peak of the dry season characterised by extreme heat waves, drought and famine.