Women enjoy light moments together on their way to search for water in one of the remotest part of Northern Kenya. The area is vast and lacks sufficient water forcing residents to walk more than 30 kilometers. Northern Kenya frontier district (mainly Marsabit, Moyale and Mandera) borders three countries that have, for the last decade been in civil war- Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia.

In the neighboring country of Somalia, on October 30, Somali President appointed Salim ‘Alyou ‘Abru prime minister after the previous leader, ‘Ali Muhammad Gedi, resigned. Gedi’s resignation after three years in office underlined his tense relationship with the president, which was marked by clan rivalry. Source: themedialine.org

Rural Northern Kenya.

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