TURKANA, Kenya — The refugees stream over Kenya’s border by the hundreds, desperate to escape the horrific violence plaguing South Sudan.
But their safe haven is stalked by another killer, with drought and famine contributing to a hunger crisis that has forced the living to eat stray dogs roaming northwestern Kenya’s region of Turkana in order to survive.
Akaran Abaru, 73, said she recently slaughtered and roasted two canines to feed her starving grandchildren.
“I am the sole breadwinner. I can’t allow them to die of hunger,” she said. “I could not beg for food because my neighbors are experiencing the same famine. And we have dogs all over the place.”
Many people are going hungry now at Kakuma, a refugee camp in the remote and arid district of Turkana, according to Abdi Abdulahi, an immigration manager…
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