Maasai adapt to new food

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Drought forces Kenya's Maasai, other cattle herders to consider fish, camels

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A recent yearslong drought in Kenya killed millions of livestock.

The Maasai and other pastoralists in Kenya and wider East Africa are adjusting to a new kind of food.

Fish were long viewed as part of the snake family due to their shape, and thus inedible.

In Kajiado county, the local government is supporting fish farming projects for pastoralists.

“You have to do whatever it takes to find cattle for wedding ceremonies, even though our herds may be smaller nowadays," said Lesian Ole Sempere , a 59-year-old Samburu elder. Offering a cow as a gift to a prospective bride's parents encourages them to declare their daughter as “your official wife,” he said..

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