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(230301) -- KAJIADO, March 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 28, 2023 shows wilted vegetation in Kajiado County, Kenya. The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They rely on livestock breeding as their main source of income. Following a historic fifth consecutive failed rainy season in the Horn of Africa, the life of Maasais in Kenya has been severely affected for scores of emaciated livestock have died due to forage grass shortage and water shortage. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)

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KENYA-KAJIADO-DROUGHT-MAASAIS-LIFE

(230301) -- KAJIADO, March 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 28, 2023 shows a Maasai trader gazing at emaciated livestock at a livestock market in Kajiado County, Kenya. The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They rely on livestock breeding as their main source of income. Following a historic fifth consecutive failed rainy season in the Horn of Africa, the life of Maasais in Kenya has been severely affected for scores of emaciated livestock have died due to forage grass shortage and water shortage. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)

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KENYA-KAJIADO-DROUGHT-MAASAIS-LIFE

(230301) -- KAJIADO, March 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 28, 2023 shows horns of livestock after their corpses were cremated near a livestock market in Kajiado County, Kenya. The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They rely on livestock breeding as their main source of income. Following a historic fifth consecutive failed rainy season in the Horn of Africa, the life of Maasais in Kenya has been severely affected for scores of emaciated livestock have died due to forage grass shortage and water shortage. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)

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KENYA-KAJIADO-DROUGHT-MAASAIS-LIFE

(230301) -- KAJIADO, March 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Members of a Maasai family wait for food aid at a boarding school in Kajiado County, Kenya, Feb. 28, 2023. The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They rely on livestock breeding as their main source of income. Following a historic fifth consecutive failed rainy season in the Horn of Africa, the life of Maasais in Kenya has been severely affected for scores of emaciated livestock have died due to forage grass shortage and water shortage. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)

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KENYA-KAJIADO-DROUGHT-MAASAIS-LIFE

(230301) -- KAJIADO, March 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Members of a Maasai family hold plates containing their lunch at a boarding school in Kajiado County, Kenya, Feb. 28, 2023. The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They rely on livestock breeding as their main source of income. Following a historic fifth consecutive failed rainy season in the Horn of Africa, the life of Maasais in Kenya has been severely affected for scores of emaciated livestock have died due to forage grass shortage and water shortage. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)

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KENYA-KAJIADO-DROUGHT-MAASAIS-LIFE

(230301) -- KAJIADO, March 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Joshua Sempeta, a 71-year-old father of ten and a patriarch of a Maasai family, is on his way home carrying food aid at a boarding school in Kajiado County, Kenya, Feb. 28, 2023. The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They rely on livestock breeding as their main source of income. Following a historic fifth consecutive failed rainy season in the Horn of Africa, the life of Maasais in Kenya has been severely affected for scores of emaciated livestock have died due to forage grass shortage and water shortage. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)

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KENYA-KAJIADO-DROUGHT-MAASAIS-LIFE

(230301) -- KAJIADO, March 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 28, 2023 shows a deserted livestock market in Kajiado County, Kenya. The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They rely on livestock breeding as their main source of income. Following a historic fifth consecutive failed rainy season in the Horn of Africa, the life of Maasais in Kenya has been severely affected for scores of emaciated livestock have died due to forage grass shortage and water shortage. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)

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KENYA-KAJIADO-DROUGHT-MAASAIS-LIFE

(230301) -- KAJIADO, March 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Members of a Maasai family wait for their lunch at a boarding school in Kajiado County, Kenya, Feb. 28, 2023. The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They rely on livestock breeding as their main source of income. Following a historic fifth consecutive failed rainy season in the Horn of Africa, the life of Maasais in Kenya has been severely affected for scores of emaciated livestock have died due to forage grass shortage and water shortage. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)

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Prolonged drought in Tanzania turns Maasai livestock keepers into hairdressers

STORY: Prolonged drought in Tanzania turns Maasai livestock keepers into hairdressers DATELINE: Feb. 27, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:09 LOCATION: DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Ray Lipasho Kimeshwa's shop in Dar es Salaam 2. SOUNDBITE: MWANAHAMISI SHAABAN, Dar es Salaam resident STORYLINE: The prolonged drought in Tanzania has forced Maasais to migrate to urban centers to do businesses like hairdressing and guarding houses. The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern Tanzania and central and southern Kenya. Ray Lipasho Kimeshwa, a Maasai born in Tanzania's northern region of Manyara, once owned about 100 cattle between the 1990s and 2000s. But the drought caused by climate change killed some of his animals. In 2001, Kimeshwa migrated to the port city of Dar es Salaam to engage in the business of hairdressing. He teamed up with two other Maasais, who both arrived in Dar es Salaam in 2016 to do the hairdressing business. Kimeshwa said their customers are women fro