Drought in the Horn

All the men have gone from Hadado with the livestock to find water or towns like Mado Gashi and Duse to find jobs.

All the men have left Hadado. Latitude 1° 29′ 00″ N. There used to be grasslands.

The women are left raising the children. Around the scrub grass and ant hills the ground eats at itself. Dirt blows.

The women work to raise the children. The children attend school in shifts. Skinny camels sniff the wind.

Women feed their children ugali. They draw water from a borehole. The water shivers with swimming things.

The children are shivering. In Hadado the women wait for their husbands. For rain.