Rain discriminates against no-one - not even a child as young as four days!
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With failed rains, conflict and poor infrastructure, many communities in South Sudan struggle to get enough to eat. Abdullah Ampilan reports from Warrap State on an Oxfam project to improve their long-term food security, providing tools and seeds to help farmers grow a wider variety of crops.
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The rainy season has come to Adi Ha in northern Ethiopia. Plastic sacks, doubling as raincoats and folded like origami crowns, sit at the ready on the heads of young herders.
Puddles swallow trucks to their underbellies. And everywhere, green sweeps the hillsides: delicate shoots of teff, so vibrant it looks lit from within, mix with fields of corn, the stalks thickening by the day and inching skywards.
But here in this village...
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Nicole Johnston on resilience, hope and dignity in Dadaab.
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