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People walk amid skeletons in a drought affected area in Mandera, Kenya on December 1, 2022. Despite residing in the area most impacted by the global climate crisis, the 300-year-old homeland of the Manderians in northern Kenya, they do not want to leave. Mandera residents are attempting to care for their animals while fighting for their own water and food needs in the state, which has not experienced adequate rainfall for the last six years. Mandera province, located in the Ethiopia-Somali-Kenya triangle, is facing drought in recent years. The state, which is home to over 1.2 million people, typically relies on farming along rivers and raising cattle for a living. The state's 1.2 million residents often rely on farming along rivers and raising livestock for a living. The riparian regions are now utterly unusable as the majority of rivers flowing from the Ethiopian mountains have dried up. (Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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