Jul 24 2008 Western Mail A toxic cocktail of factors, including successive droughts, violent conflict and chronic poverty has the potential to devastate East Africa. Oxfam Cymru’s Jonathan Tench reports on a visit to the deprived north of Kenya THINGS are getting worse. The rains have failed again. It’s a curse, maybe we’ve wronged God.” This is how Philip Aemun, a native of the Turkana region in northern Kenya and who works for Oxfam there, explained how he and local people talk about the latest in a series of droughts to affect their community. Despite living in and travelling many times to East Africa over the past seven years, I had not been confronted with the destitution I saw on my recent visit. Nor had I been as inspired by the resilience of the human spirit, and the ability of the world’s poorest people to not just...
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