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Andy Lines, in Baragoi, northern Kenya & Pictures by Adam Gerrard

East Africa's drought crisis in numbers with 120 million people struggling to survive

The figures are simply unbelievable. One person is dying from hunger in East Africa every single 30 seconds.

The drought is killing people by the tens of thousands. Around 120 million people in northern Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan are struggling without the food they need to survive.

That’s twice the population of the UK.

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