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Ready or not―drought tests Ethiopia

by Colin Cosier

Workitu Tegenu and her children at their home near Welenchi. Photo: Colin Cosier/IRIN

Herding weary sheep up a dusty path, Hussein Boru knows he won’t find green pastures. He’s just looking for the minimum to keep his flock fed in drought-hit eastern Ethiopia.

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