Mohammed Hassan Gureh has made up his mind: he's going to sell the last of his goats and leave his village to find a new life.
Like many herders in the east of Ethiopia, he has been forced to give up his nomadic existence after seeing his livestock decimated by drought.
Gureh, like other nomadic herders across the Horn of Africa, has been waiting desperately for more than two years for rains that have not come. Gureh waited and prayed, but he has had to face the grim reality."There is no sign of improvement. I think the drought will continue and get worse over time."With the small amount of money he'll make from a sale, he plans to leave El Gel and head to the nearby town of K'elafo, hoping he will finally be able to support his wife, his four children, his blind father and his crippled mother.
"I don't know how to do anything else than be a nomadic shepherd," he says on his return from several hours of walking to graze his animals.The 29-year-old has split up his family, entrusting four of his eight children to his mother-in-law, who lives about 30 kilometres away. Alaso Abdi, who is in her 70s, turned up at the Berley camp for displaced people near the town of Gode after losing her 10 camels and 500 goats.
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