Keeping Africa's Deserts at Bay

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

All Dried Up
A Samburu elder walks on the cracked earth where a river once flowed in the eastern Kenyan town of Archer's Post. Severe drought has been a catalyst for tribal wars that have escalated in the country's north.

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