Keeping Africa's Deserts at Bay

Keeping Africa's Deserts at Bay
Dominic Nahr / Magnum for TIME

Final Resort
A Samburu man leads his cattle out of the village and across a swath of arid land toward a water well dug into a desiccated Kenyan riverbed.

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