Indigenous people and climate change: With Kenya's Turkana people, when drought kills (1/4)

It's March 2023 in Kenya and the Turkana people are still waiting for rain. They’ve been waiting for five long years. These nomadic herders live in the arid northwest of the East African country. For centuries, their lives have been determined by the alternating dry and rainy seasons. But now the water has stopped coming, leaving the land parched.

The lack of pasture has decimated the Turkana's livestock, causing famine and death. For those who have lost everything, there is only one solution: to turn to fishing in the immense salt lake that borders their land. Our team reports.

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