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The great drought: Disaster looms in East Africa
independent.co.uk - 10/3/2009
The great drought: Disaster looms in East Africa
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Rotting carcasses testify to the scale of the disaster looming in East Africa. Daniel Howden reports from Marsabit, Kenya

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Suburban Guerrilla — ... We’re killing the world. In the meantime, TV bobbleheads want to leer over David Letterman and Republican “leaders” crow over losing the Olympics. ...

The great drought: Disaster looms in East Africa
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... seen a drought like this. "If I was young I would go to look for cash work. I am old. I may just die with my animals." Across East Africa an extraordinary drought is drying up rivers, and grasslands, scorching crops and threatening millions of people with starvation. In Kenya, the biggest and most robust economy in the region, the rivers that feed its great game reserves have run dry and since the country relies on hydropower, electricity is now rationed in the cities. Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/the-grea...

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