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Kenya's cash-for-climate-change aid
New approach to aid comes out of drought in Kenya's northeast.
Last Modified: 03 Nov 2009 21:42 GMT

A prolonged drought in Kenya - blamed heavily on climate change - has plunged hundreds of thousands of people into poverty.

The worst affected are cattle-herders in the country's northeast. Communities that used to be self-sufficient, are now dependent on cash hand-outs from aid groups.

Mohammed Adow reports on a new approach to aid in the town of Takaba. 

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Al Jazeera
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