Aidan Hartley Aidan Hartley

There are almost no animals left – but we’ve been here before

In northern Kenya, eight in ten of all cattle died in the dry stretch of 1984

We are seeing what might become the worst drought since 1984 [Avalon.red/Alamy Stock Photo]

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